Epithet

Multiple Choice

What is an epithet?

• the use of words to make something dramatic

• a literary device that describes and evaluates a person, place, or object with a descriptive and evaluative word or phrase.

• descriptions of an action

• literary device that uses an opposite meaning of a expression

Multiple Choice

" golden friends" Here epithet is used as ...

• an attribute

• a syntactic construction

• an adverbial modifier

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a man with a Say-nothing-to-me expression on his face Here epithet is used as ...

• an attribute

• a syntactic construction

• an adverbial modifier

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all I want is to sleep peacefully Here epithet is used as ...

• an attribute

• a syntactic construction

• an adverbial modifier

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What is the epithet in the following phrase?

a cold-hearted Prince

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What is the epithet describing?

a cold-hearted Prince

Multiple Choice

Which is the epithet "true love"?

• Fixed

• Phrase- epithet

• inverted epithet

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Which is the epithet "a sleepless pillow"?

• Fixed

• Phrase- epithet

• Figurative

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Which is the epithet " merry Christmas"?

• fixed

• inverted epithet

• Phrase- epithet

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Which is the epithet " a ghost-like face"?

• fixed

• inverted epithet

• compound epithet

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Which is the epithet " a smiling sun"?

• fixed

• transferred

• compound epithet

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Which is the epithet "a Move-if-you-dare expression"?

• fixed

• Phrase- epithets

• inverted epithets

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Which is the epithet "a fantastic terror"?

• associated

• Phrase- epithets

• inverted epithets

• unassociated

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Which is the epithet "destructive charms"?

• associated

• Phrase- epithets

• inverted epithets

• unassociated

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Which is the epithet "a witch of a girl"?

• reversed

• Phrase- epithets

• inverted epithets

• unassociated

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Which is the epithet "a mystery perfect it is"?

• reversed

• Phrase- epithets

• inverted epithet

• unassociated

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Which is the epithet "What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking “Nevermore."?

• chain of epithets

• Phrase- epithets

• inverted epithet

• unassociated