Question

with trembling oars I turned. the figure of speech is what?​

Answer 1

Answer:

personification or metaphor

Answer 2

With trembling oars I turned – trembling is a transferred epithet.

Explanation:

• Transferred epithet is a figure of speech that relates to the emotion of a human being which is being transferred to a non-human being.

• The human emotion is so transferred that it appears that the non-human object is experiencing the emotion.

• In the given sentence, ‘With trembling oars I turned’, ‘trembling’ is the transferred epithet.

• It appears that the oars are trembling with fear but actually the fear is experienced by the human subject ‘I’ in this case.