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Vsuresh Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
transferred epithet
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Please help me with this.
In the poem Lord Ullin's Daughter, Lord Ullin's daughter flees with her lover, a chieftain of an island. Lord Ullin's men on their horses are chasing. The chieftain and his lover try to escape by ferrying a river but eventually die caught in a tempest in the sea. Thus the poet calls it 'a fatal shore'
The question is what is the figure of speech used here? a) metaphor b) simile c) transferred epithet d) onomatopoeia
My pick is C. Am I correct?
Please help me with this.
In the poem Lord Ullin's Daughter, Lord Ullin's daughter flees with her lover, a chieftain of an island. Lord Ullin's men on their horses are chasing. The chieftain and his lover try to escape by ferrying a river but eventually die caught in a tempest in the sea. Thus the poet calls it 'a fatal shore'
The question is what is the figure of speech used here? a) metaphor b) simile c) transferred epithet d) onomatopoeia
My pick is C. Am I correct?
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You should be able to answer this by process of elimination. The wrong answers are the easy ones.
- You should be able to answer this by process of elimination.
- The wrong answers are the easy ones.
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You should be able to answer this by process of elimination. The wrong answers are the easy ones.
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vsureshHiPlease help me with this.In the poem Lord Ullin's Daughter, Lord Ullin's daughter flees with her lover, a chieftain of an island. Lord Ullin's men on their horses are chasing. The chieftain and his lover try to escape by ferrying a river but eventually die caught in a tempest in the sea. Thus the poet calls it 'a fatal shore'The question is what is the figure of
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You are absolutely correct.
Transferred epithet involves the use of modifiers, often adjectives to wrong side of noun..As fatal shore doesn't mean that the shore fatal it is indicated to the anger of the father.
Transferred epithet involves the use of modifiers, often adjectives to wrong side of noun..As fatal shore doesn't mean that the shore fatal it is indicated to the anger of the father.
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you are correct. C is the correct option because as per the definition and example of transferred epithet, in "fatal shore" we find that the adjective fatal is attributed to the inanimate noun "shore". Shore itself has not any fixed quality but the feelings of the perceiver (here Lord Ullin who watches the death of his daughter from this shore) attribute the quality fatal to the Shore.
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