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WHAT IS A TRANSFERRED EPITHET? PLEASE GIVE SUFFICIENT EXAMPLES PLEASE.

A figure of speech in which an epithet (or adjective) grammatically qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing. Also known as hypallage.

A transferred epithet often involves shifting a modifier from the animate to the inanimate, as in the phrases "cheerful money," "sleepless night," and "suicidal sky."

examples - angry wind,a careless match,the weary road,wide-eyed amazement.

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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.

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 A transferred epithet is a common figure of speech where an adjective is transferred to a noun .A  transferred epithet  for example ' fatal shore '  is grammaticaly correct but not logicaly as a shore cannot be fatal .Do not get confused between a personification and a transferred epithet . A personification is a figure of speech used to give human qualities to an inanimate object.

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An epithet is an adjective (or phrase containing an adjective) or adverb which modifies (describes) a noun. For instance, in "dreamless sleep", dreamless is the epithet.In a transferred epithet (also known as hypallage; literally "echange") the adjective or adverb is transferred from the noun it logically belongs with, to another one which fits it grammatically but not logically. So in "dreamless night" , dreamless is a transferred epithet. The exact meaning of the sentence is "night when I (or whoever) slept without dreaming," since a night can't actually dream anyway.We use transferred epithets all the time. Another example could be "I had a terrible day." "Terrible" is a transferred epithet, because it wasn't the day that was terrible, only the things that happened to me on that day. A more poetic example would be "a long and weary road" - long can apply logically to the road, but not weary so weary is a transferred epithet.

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an epithet is an adjective
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