"the smiling sun", "the frowning cloud", "the sleepless pillow", "the tobacco-stained smile", a "ghost-like face", "a dreamlike experience", "triumphant look"
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Hypallage — (pronEng|haɪˈpælədʒiː) is a literary device that is the reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in her beauty s face ).One kind of hypallage, also known as a transferred epithet, is the trope or rhetorical device in which a modifier,… … Wikipedia
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hypallage — noun /hɪˈpalədʒi,hʌɪˈpalədʒi/ A construction in which a modifier with meaning associated with one word appears grammatically applied to another, often used as literary device. Syn: transferred epithet … Wiktionary
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