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Lexical Stylistic Devices
... to qualify it is always chosen by the speaker himself. Epithet gives opportunities of qualifying every object from subjective viewpoint, which is indispensable in creative prose, publicist style and everyday speech.
Like metaphor, metonymy and simile epithets are
also based o
n
similarity
between two objects, on
nearness
of
the
qualified
objects and on their
comparison
.
Through long and repeated use epithets become
fixed
. Many fixed epithets are closely connected with folklore. First fixed ...