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Noun: hypallage  hi'pa-lu-jee or hI'pa-lu-jee
  1. Reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in ‘her beauty's face’)
    "The phrase 'a mind of winter' instead of 'a wintry mind' is an example of hypallage"

Derived forms: hypallages

Type of: rhetorical device

Encyclopedia: Hypallage