ABSTRACT
Hypallage, deriving from Greek hypo-(under)+allassein (exchange), is a figure of speech in which the attributes of one element of a statement are transferred to another element. Thus a descriptive adjective may be shifted from the noun to which it applies to another noun. A well-known example of such a transferred epithet comes from Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard:
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.
