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date: 24 March 2025

Hypallage 

Source:
Garner's Modern English Usage
Author(s):

Bryan Garner

/hɪ-pal-ә-jee/, known also as the transferred epithet, is a figure of speech in which the proper subject is displaced by what would logically be the object (if it were named directly). Usually hypallage is a mere idiomatic curiosity. It has a distinguished lineage—a famous example being Shakespeare's line from ... ...

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