Question

Are black stripes and yellow ground transferred epithet

Answer 1

Answer:

A transferred epithet is a little known—but often used—figure of speech in which a modifier (usually an adjective) qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing. In other words, the modifier or epithet is transferred from the noun it is meant to describe to another noun in the sentence.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

because  metaphor is a thing that is symbolic of something else, especially abstract.