Question

What is the figure of speech employed in the following poetic line? Down on the gloomy complaining street

Answer 1

The figure of speech used in ‘Down on the gloomy complaining street’ is a transferred epithet.

What is a transferred epithet?

• A transferred epithet is a poetic device in which the action or feeling is transferred to another being or thing.
• Here, the sentence states ‘gloomy complaining street’.
• However, a street cannot feel gloomy or complain. It is a non-living thing.
• This means that the person looking at the street is feeling gloomy and complaining.
• Therefore, it is the person who feels that the street itself is gloomy and is complaining.
• So, the person’s feelings have been transferred to the street.
• This is what is known as a transferred epithet.
• Other examples of transferred epithet is ‘fearful trip’ and ‘weary way’.

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