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Transferred Epithet and Punning第七小组Transferred Epithet CONTENTPunningTransferred Epithet讲解人：胡路efinitionTransferred epithet is a little known—but often used—figure of speech in which a modifier (usually an adjective) qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing.Transferred Epithet E.g.a friendly greetinga sincere answera sad storya melancholy landscapea thirsty meetingan annoyed lookangry wordsnervous hoursmerry bells语法结构上：描述性形容词移位修饰名词I spoke to them in hesitant French.复合形容词移位修饰名词People listened with open-moused astonishment while the shocking new sank in.The new man wrote a question at which I stared in wide-eyed amazement.现在分词移位修饰名词They prolonged the clasp for the photographers, exchanging smiling words.过去分词移位修饰名词An awed hush fell upon the bystanders.of 结构用于移位修饰The grapes of wrath.语义上：由修饰人物转为修饰事物 He lay in bed, smoking his thinking pipe. 由修饰人转为修饰人的某部分 She showed me an appalled gesture.由修饰动物转为修饰事物 The crawling minutes seem to be ever-lasting由修饰具体事物转为修饰抽象事物 They are in deep friendship.由修饰抽象事物转为具体事物 They had to bear pitiless wind at night.Example“As I sat in the bathtub, soaping a meditative foot and singing...it would be deceiving my public to say that I was feeling boomps-a-daisy.From Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, by P.G. WodehouseWodehouse transfers his meditative feeling to the foot he is soaping. Indeed, it was he who was feeling meditative, not his foot.fatal shore – Lord Ullin’s daughter dies as her boat capsizes on leaving the shore. Thus, it is the boat journey that is fatal, but this outcome has been transferred to the shore.More Examples “Lord Ullin reach’d that fatal shore”—Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin’s Daughter“… may be completely destroyed in that second’s instant of a careless match,”—William Faulkner, Golden Land“…until it shines, like her own honest forehead, with perpetual friction.”—Charles Dickens, David CopperfieldTransferred Epithets VS PersonificationDont confuse transferred epithets with personification!从内