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hypallage

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hypallage

Figure of speech in which an epithet is transferred from one word to another, as in ‘the condemned cell’ and ‘a sleepless pillow’.



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Largely derived from rhetorical theory (probably from Melanchthon, via Lucas Lossius), terms such as hypallage, hypotyposis, parrhesia, pathopoeia, and syncope are used to describe musical procedures, not always in a way one would expect from the rhetorical analogue (indeed, in some cases Burmeister even changed his mind between treatises).
Musical Poetics by Blackburn, Bonnie J. / Renaissance Quarterly
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