Hypallage
WordNet

noun


(1)   Reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
WiktionaryText

Noun



  1. A literary device that is the reversal of the syntactic relation of two words, e.g. "her beauty's face" or I can't knock the smirk off his stupid face (because the thing that is referred to being stupid is "him", and not "his face").
 
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