the polished traffic passed with a mind ahead. figure of speech
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The figure of speech used here is a transferred epithet.
- A transferred epithet is when the attribute or action is being done by someone or something else, but the credit goes to something or someone else.
- For example, here the 'polished traffic' refers to the shiny cars in the traffic.
- Yet, the 'polished traffic', meaning the cars, are said to have a 'mind' that is focussed on going ahead.
- In reality, it is the people in the cars who have a 'mind'.
- Thus, the mind of the people is being transferred to the cars.
- It is a creative way of expressing oneself.
- We normally do not use the transferred epithet, but poets and authors do.
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Answer:
The figure of speech used is a Transferred epithet.
Explanation:
- It's hired while an adjective is usually used to explain one issue is used to explain something else.
- An epithet represents a time period or expression that characterizes a person or something's major trait.
- In the given sentence it's far utilized in Polished traffic.
- The time period refers to upper-elegance human beings riding automobiles to their locations possibly to some other location, oblivious to the country roadside stand.
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