Question

what is transferred epithet. and give an example from ball poem

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Answer 1

Answer:

Transferred epithet is when an adjective usually used to describe one thing is transferred to another. An epithet is a word or phrase which describes the main quality of someone or something. For example: 'a happy person'. Epithets are usually adjectives like 'happy' that describe a noun like 'person'.

Answer 2

QUESTION :-

What is Transferred Epithet? Give Example

ANSWER :-

A Transferred Epithet is when an Adjective is Transferred to a Different Noun.

For Example, in the Poem 'Rain on the Roof' by Coates Kinney,

"When the Humid Shadows Hover

Over all the Starry Spheres

And the Melancholy Darkness

Gently Weeps in Rainy Tears,

What a Bliss to press the Pillow

Of a Cottage-Chamber bed

And lie listening to the Patter

Of the Soft Rain Overhead!"

Here, in the Paragraph given Above, Melancholy Darkness refers to Sadness...It is an Example of Transferred Epithet...