What is a transferred epithet? Can you give some examples?

Transferred epithet, is the trope or rhetorical device in which a modifier, usually an adjective, is applied to the "wrong" word in the sentence. The word whose modifier is thus displaced can either be actually present in the sentence, or it can be implied logically. The effect often stresses the emotions or feelings of the individual by expanding them on to the environment.

An example of the same could be: "I had a terrible day." "Terrible" is a transferred epithet, because it wasn't the day that was terrible, but the situations that one faced or the things that happened to that person on that particular day. 

Another example could be: "Dreamless night", here as a night cannot possess or have any dreams, dreamless becomes a transferred epithet.

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