In this article, we will talk, which is an epithet and how to recognize it in a sentence or literature.
Despite the fact that epithets are actively used in our daily speech, many still do not know what it is and it is quite normal. Nevertheless, we decided to figure out what the epithets are and how to recognize them.
What is an epithet in colloquial speech and literature?
The epithet is a figurative expression that allows you to characterize as bright as possible the phenomenon and objects. It is expressed by various parts of speech.
- Living water.
- Velvet hands.
In the literature, epithets are most often used. They allow you to make speech more vivid and expressive, as well as convey the feelings of the author, heroes, and so on. Most often, epithets are adjectives. Although, adverbs, for example, are no less popular "Suffly suffer".
It is important to note that an epithet can be more than one word, it can be whole phrases that give the text a new shade and meaning. It all depends on the location in the text and the context of use. There is no particular opinion about the concept under consideration. Someone claims that these are figures, while others attribute them to paths and figures, that is, they distinguish as an independent means of expression.
It is important to note that the epithet allows you to emphasize the signs that are inherent exclusively to the subject, event, or even to a particular person. Due to their use, you can get a more complete idea of \u200b\u200bwhat is happening.
Thanks to the epithets, you can make the text especially deep and expressive. As a rule, the design is very simple. This is an adjective and noun in one bunch.
If the epithet is located vertically, that is, separately, then this allows you to enhance its sound and make the text deeper. So, in the work of A. Blok, all lines end with epithets:
The epithet “strange” allows you to create the effect that the silence is torn, and after reading-the “foggy” remains some mystery and echoing echo.
It is also important to know that the epithet can be simple and consist of only one word, for example, "Picture clouds" or difficult when he has more words - "Concert-Lieting Story".
Some epithets can be exclusively copyright. They allow you to give the text expression, special meaning and then consist of a group of words:
— In saucers - glasses of rescue circles.
After reading such an epithet, you will not understand the point of meaning immediately, but gradually the whole meaning of what has been said and begin to understand that the author looks from a different angle at simple things for all.
In the above epithet, some kind of subtext is immediately felt, the special meaning is ironic, sarcastic and perplexing. And all these feelings are able to convey only one epithet.
In the literature there is only one concept - decorating the epithet. However, this is absolutely wrong, since this is applicable only to the old theory, and literature has managed to change a lot during this time, and the thinking of the poets is already completely different.
It is important to note that all phenomena indicated by such a concept fall into one category called "epithet". The theory of literature has long known that not every definition is an epithet. There is even such a definition that the epithets contain only the analytical part, and they also call time.
If you begin to lay out the whole expression in order to understand what is happening, it immediately becomes noticeable that the epithet is given a sign that has already been at one time or another for the determined word. This is due to the fact that it really needs it and it would be difficult to understand what is happening without it. The distinguished sign may first seem unimportant or even inappropriate, but for the poet or writer this is not so.
By the way, there is another interesting nuance - not always part of the speech can be called an epithet even if signs or phenomena are designated. They can be predicted, addition or determine the logical load, but not be epithets.
For example, if we say "Direct glance", then the epithet is clearly not there. But when expressed "Fasty look", already there is an epithet.
To find suitable examples, you do not need to go far. There are extremely many of them in literature. Because in it you can often see such expressions as "Red girl", "Good well done" and so on. By the way, they are also called constant because they are found in different works.
As the epithets develop, they began to be used more often in literature, because this allows you to fully convey the feelings and sensations of heroes and events. Many epithets are present in poetry. She uses them more often than others.
The role of epithets is determined only by one formulation - they are part of complex structures and should not only convey the thoughts and feelings of the author, but also enrich them with emotions. If you competently combine epithets and other paths, you can create interesting and non -standard images:
In this case, the author lists epithets expressing not only a gait and color, but also describes what is happening. The hem of the cloak is not just red, but more bloody. And the epithets that describe the gait allow you to understand what the owner had in the past and the fact that he still had a military begging.
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