Epithet
Epithet (EP-ih-thet) is a noun-adjective combination as a means for amplification or further description, epithets can be semantically redundant or unusual. They sometimes become nicknames. “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life,” Romeo and Juliet, 1.P.1. Also see transferred epithet.
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Epithet
Two households, both alike in dignity
Read the SonnetTwo households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudgeParenthesis break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.Antanaclesis & Synecdoche
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
From forth the fatal loins of these two foesAlliteration,
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