英语修辞. Transferred Epithet移就

Transferred Epithet
• 2) An adjective or phrase usually describing a kind of things is used to describe another kind of things, or abstract idea. • (1) Our lives would grow together in sad or singing weather. • (2) There was grey peace.
Examples
• (5) But he had to leave the ຫໍສະໝຸດ Baiduity for a while because of some scathing /severe columns he wrote.
Examples
• • • • • • (6) He committed an impudent crime. (7) Ha had a pitiful smile on his face. (8) He has a passionate throat. (9) I had a sleepless night. (10) This is a crazy stone. (11) We had a guilty feeling.
Examples
• (1) His brow is wet with honest sweat. ( by H. W. Longfellow) • (2) They were mortified by their humble scores at the national examination.
English Rhetoric
Figures of Relationship
Figure of Relationship
• 15.Transferred Epithet • 移就
Transferred Epithet is a figurative device in which an epithet (an • adjective or descriptive phrase) is transferred from the noun it would ordinarily precede ( or right modify) to another noun to which it made from a person to a thing or an idea.
Examples
• 3) My host handed me a hospitable glass of wine. • 4) It is a dizzy height. • 5) I had three purposeless days • 6) Wish you a happy and healthy 2014.
Examples in Chinese
• • • • • • 1. 怒发冲冠 2. 礼服 3. 情书 4. 病床 5. 酒楼 6.芳香言语
Assignment
• Collect more examples about transferred epithet in both Chinese and English.
Transferred Epithet
• Transferred Epithet, also called hypallage(换置法), is often used in the following two cases. • 1) An adjective or phrase usually describing a person is used to describe a thing or abstract idea.
Transferred Epithet See P.234
Examples
• 1) In “The Grapes of Wrath” • 2) and “a surprised silence”, • “of wrath” and “surprised” are transferred epithets, for the grapes, logically, cannot be of wrath, nor can a silence be surprised.
Examples
• (3) Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, all clamoring for a cigarette. • (4) America has shown us too many desperately worried executives dropping into early graves… (BY J. B. Priestley)