Figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, ... A TRANSFERRED EPITHET is an adjective modifying a noun which it cannot ...
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FIGURE OF SPEECH ... A figure of speech, sometimes termed a rhetorical figure or device, or elocution, is a word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language. Figures of speech are often used and crafted for ... ·transferred epithet: The placing of an adjective with what appears to be the incorrect noun...
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One kind of hypallage, also known as a transferred epithet, is the trope or rhetorical device in which a modifier, usually an adjective, is applied to the "wrong" word in the sentence. The word whose modifier is thus displaced can either be actually present in the sentence, or it can be implied logically. ... Figure of speech...
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It is a figure of speech that means the speaker intends to protect the listener, actually or symbolically. It originates from war, in which one soldier informs another that the first will train his weapon toward an area from which ... transferred epithet: The placing of an adjective with what appears to be the incorrect noun...
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Figure of speech in which an epithet is transferred from one word to another, as in ‘the condemned cell’ and ‘a sleepless pillow’. ... Transferred epithet; Transferred intent; Transferred intent; Transferred Nuclear Overhauser Enhancement; transferred possession; transferred property;
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encyclopedia.farlex.com/Transferred+epithet
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Now lets add a little figure of speech to this line, She had eyes as blue as the sky and as deep as the ocean. Sounds better? Reads better? Conveys your idea better? A simple figure of ... ; It is an epithet which has been transferred from the word to which it strictly belongs to another word connected with it in thought.
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A 'figure of speech', sometimes termed a rhetoric, or elocution, is a word or phrase that departs ... ★ transferred epithet: The placing of an adjective with what appears to be the incorrect noun; ★ truism: a self-evident statement; ★ tricolon diminuens: A combination of three elements, each decreasing in size;
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www.tripatlas.com/Figure_of_speech
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Actually, it is the writer, creator, or creators of the document or source who is, or are, intentional or unintentional, not the testimony itself, so these phrases are examples of a figure of speech, the transferred epithet, where the adjective, which strictly speaking should be applied to a person, is transferred to...
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Figures of Speech. Allegory. A narrative in which abstract ideas figure as .... Transferred Epithet. A device of emphasis in which the poet attributes some ...
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www.hoocher.com/figuresofspeech.htm
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