| hypallage |
| Definition: A figure of speech where the normal syntactic relationship between words is reversed. |
| Example: his transfixion's eyes viewed her beauty's face |
| Etymology: The word means "interchange" or "exchange" in Greek. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: Its first citation is from 1586: "Hypallage, when by change of property in application a thing is delivered, as to say … the wicked wound thus given, for, having thus wickedly wounded him." (A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 83 ) |