Talk:hypallage

Italian "apallage" means something else?
I am removing apallage from the Italian translations: the Italian definitions/descriptions I can find suggest that it does not mean (English) hypallage. What I failed to find out is what the English is for these figures of speech. (Incidentally, and others says that German Apallage means release from suffering, cure or emptying;  says it means the same in Dutch and  and other older Italian dictionaries also mention this (medical) sense in Italian. In The Forensic Stage: Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy by Adele C. Scafuro it appears to mean a form of agreement in ancient Greece, related to aphesis. Απαλλαγή in Greek Wiktionary gives exemption, acquittal and (military) discharge.) PJTraill (talk) 11:15, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * On Italian Wikipedia we read:
 * L'apallage è una figura retorica consistente nell'alterazione dell'ordine logico della successione dei concetti. Viene dal greco ἀπαλλάσσω (io separo).
 * Esempi
 * Vorrei, ma non è possibile, spiegarti la situazione.
 * L'Italia! Mi hanno accusato di averla chiamata vile! E non ricordarono (se non fosse troppo innocente ed ingenuo appellarsi alla memoria degli avversari) e non ricordarono, per un verso. - (Carducci)
 * As I understand it this says Apallage is a figure of speech in which the ordering of concepts departs from the logical order, which is not hypallage.
 * On we read:
 * (Apallage) consiste nell’interrompere la sequenza sintattica della frase introducendo un concetto diverso (solitamente con una proposizione incidentale).
 * «Sono così belli, si colorano di teneri sguardi, i tuoi occhi allegri»
 * As I understand it this says that it means interrupting the grammatical sequence with a different concept, typically an incidental assertion; agrees.
 * ,, and others say it can mean either of these devices.

Chambers says hypallage involves exchange
The 13th edition of Chambers says that hypallage is not just a single transference of epithet, but an exchange, as in pouring wind and gusting rain. PJTraill (talk) 11:15, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

He nodded his agreeing head
HYPALLAGE: a figure of speech in which the usual relations of words/phrases are interchanged, e.g. "He nodded his agreeing head." What such interchange is shown in the example He nodded his agreeing head ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:35, 19 July 2021 (UTC)