Homer used certain epithets so regularly that they became a standard part of the name of the thing or person described, as in "rosy-fingered Dawn" and "gray-eyed Athena." The device was used by many later poets, including John Keats in his sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer": Oft of one wide expanse had I...
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Examples and Observations: ... Using an appropriate adjective (often habitually) to characterize a person or thing. Adjective: epithetic. See also: ... "Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."; (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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Greek epithets ... Famous epithets ... Odyssey epithets...
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To find a particular term, use your browser's Find command. Note: Terms already in the Handbook of Rhetorical Devices have been deleted from this file. ... Frequent use of epithets ("Aeneas the true"; "rosy-fingered Dawn"; "tall-masted ship")
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Avoid using modern epithets (swear words). It's much more colorful (and kid-friendly) to use "pirate slang" for those naughty words. ... Pirates, just like their modern-day counterparts (regular guys), love to joke and jibe with their buddies. By all means, pirates will call their buddies "bilge rats."
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Distinctive epithets are found in the ancient Greek classic, ... Rupert Brooke is another modern poet who used words with charm yet with great precision. ...
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Pish for thee, Iceland dog! Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland! —Shakespeare, Henry V Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the... ... Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the ancient British trawler ports of Grimsby and Hull last week, and the Queen's ministers sent off...
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Especially when coming from Bufford’s mouth, seemingly laughable words like “strumpet” take on the troubling power of stronger, modern epithets.
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Mercury, known to the Romans as Mercurius and occasionally in earlier writings as Merqurius, Mirqurios or Mircurios, had a number of epithets representing different aspects or roles, or representing syncretisms with non-Roman deities.
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Place of Action: City of Troy and surrounding plains in northwestern Anatolia, a region in the Asia Minor that is part of modern-day Turkey. ... The Homeric epithet is an ancient relative of such later epithets as Richard the Lion-Hearted, Ivan the Terrible, and America the Beautiful. Homer repeated his epithets...
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