Epithet, Детальна інформація

4. “…if you drink much from a bottle marked “poison”, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.”

L. Carroll

                                                                                                               

Zeugma

1. They grew frightened, sitting thus and facing their own apprehensions and a callous, tobacco-smoking audience.

J. London

2. He returned with an easier air to the table and his meal.

H.G. Wells

3. The one martyr who might, perhaps, have paid him a visit and a fee did not show herself.

 A. Bennett

4. She broke off under the strain of her illiteracy and an overloaded stomach.

A. Cronin

5. “What are you guys doing – having a supper and ladies’ night.”

A. Hailey

Metonymy

1. The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black-bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton, and conversed in American with a policeman off duty. (sort of beer)

H.G. Wells

2. I made off up the roadway to Bloomsbury Square, intending to strike north past the Museum and so get into the quiet district. (British Museum)

H.G. Wells

3. The pistol snapped its penultimate shot and ripped a valuable Sidney Cooper. (ripped a canvas)

H.G. Wells

Oxymoron

1. The thought was like some sweet, disarranging poison to Clyde.

T. Dreiser

Oxymoron is a specific type of an epithet, which is always contrary to the verb or noun it modifies. With the use of the above-mentioned oxymoron the author shows that this thought was pleasant to Clyde, but at the same time dangerous.

2. When Clyde appeared to be the least reduced in mind she most affected this patter with him, since it had an almost electric, if sweetly tormenting effect on him.

T. Dreiser

3. You baddie, good boy.

T. Dreiser

4. It tortured and flustered him.