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trans·ferred epi·thet
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transferred epithet
Hypallage (; from the Greek: ὑπαλλαγή, hypallagḗ, "interchange, exchange") is a figure of speech in which the syntactic relationship between two terms is interchanged, or – more frequently – a modifier is syntactically linked to an item other than the one that it modifies semantically. The latter type of hypallage, typically resulting in the implied personification of an inanimate or abstract noun, is also called a transferred epithet.
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transferred epithet
This is the name for the curious English construction in which an adjective is understood as modifying, not the noun following it, but somebody or something else: "She was smoking a pensive cigarette." Here it is not the cigarette which is pensive but the woman smoking it.
Submitted by RobertHaigh on July 11, 2020
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of transferred epithet in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of transferred epithet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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