Name the figure of speech used in the following line: “The Ploughman plods his weary way”.
The expression uses a transferred epithet: the weariness belongs to the ploughman but is grammatically attached to his way. It contains no explicit comparison of the kind…
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Name the figure of speech used in the following line:
“The Ploughman plods his weary way”.
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The expression uses a transferred epithet: the weariness belongs to the ploughman but is grammatically attached to his way. It contains no explicit comparison of the kind required for a simile.
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Gujarat SET (GSET)