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| epithet examples in literature: Lycidas John Milton, 1897 |
| epithet examples in literature: The Seafarer Ida L. Gordon, 1979 |
| epithet examples in literature: Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts Saʿdeddīn Efendi, 2021-10-11 Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts: Hoca Saʿdeddīn Efendi’s (d. 1599) Selimname comprises a critical edition, English translation, and a facsimile of his hagiographic work on controversial Ottoman sultan Selim I (“the Grim”). |
| epithet examples in literature: Howards End Illustrated E M Forster, 2020-09-28 Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. Howards End is considered by some to be Forster's masterpiece.[1] The book was conceived in June 1908 and worked on throughout the following year; it was completed in July 1910.[2] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Howards End 38th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. |
| epithet examples in literature: Paradise Lost John Milton, 1889 |
| epithet examples in literature: Beowulf , 2012-03-01 Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies. |
| epithet examples in literature: To Build a Fire Jack London, 2008 Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim. |
| epithet examples in literature: Big Blonde Dorothy Parker, 2021-11-08T14:41:00Z Short story, winner of the 1929 O. Henry Award. The big blonde in question is Hazel Morse, who, when we meet her, is a model in a wholesale dress establishment, whose thoughts are largely devoted to men. Then she meets Herbie Morse, an attractive man and a heavy drinker. Where will events now take her? |
| epithet examples in literature: The Cambridge Guide to Homer Corinne Ondine Pache, Casey Dué, Susan Lupack, Robert Lamberton, 2020-03-05 From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures. |
| epithet examples in literature: Iliad, Books 13-24 Homer, 1890 |
| epithet examples in literature: “The” Satires of Juvenal,. Juvenal, 1785 |
| epithet examples in literature: Oral Literature in Africa Ruth Finnegan, 2012-09 Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, drum language and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website. |
| epithet examples in literature: Song of the Brook Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, 1881 |
| epithet examples in literature: Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage Merriam-Webster, Inc, 2002 A handy guide to problems of confused or disputed usage based on the critically acclaimed Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Over 2,000 entries explain the background and basis of usage controversies and offer expert advice and recommendations. |
| epithet examples in literature: How to Speak and Write Correctly Joseph Devlin, 2013-03-06 This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to speaking and writing correctly, with information on grammar, sentence structure, writing letters, common pitfalls, comments on famous pieces of literature and their authors, and much more. Written in simple, clear language and full of helpful tips and hints, this text will be of considerable utility to those with a keen interest in linguistics, and it would make for a worthy addition to any personal library. The chapters of this book include: Essentials of English Grammar, The Sentence, Figurative Language, Punctuation, Letter Writing, Errors, Pitfalls to Avoid, Style, Suggestions, Slang, Writing for Newspapers, Choice of Words, English Language, and Masters and Masterpieces of Literature. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author. |
| epithet examples in literature: Epigrams & Aphorisms Oscar Wilde, 1905 |
| epithet examples in literature: If I Ran the Zoo Dr. Seuss, 1950 Gerald tells of the very unusual animals he would add to the zoo, if he were in charge. |
| epithet examples in literature: Odyssey Homer, 2019 Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time. |
| epithet examples in literature: Epithets at the Syntax-Semantics Interface Pritty Patel-Grosz, 2015-10-05 This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic theoretical investigations on epithets. Epithets (such as “the bastard”) are anaphoric expressions which take the shape of a definite description, contain an evaluative component, and are typically unstressed. This monograph shows that, in order to understand the perplexing nature of epithets, one must consider what kinds of behavior they exhibit in different components of the language faculty. In this vein, the text adopts a broad approach, analysing epithets from the perspective of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. The empirical focus of this monograph is on epithets in embedded clauses. It unearths new empirical findings and shows that the acceptability of epithets is affected by a variety of influences, including syntactic factors, such as whether the epithet is in the subject position of an embedded clause, or its object position. Semantic-pragmatic restrictions further navigate the nature of epithets, such as whether they are intended to refer to an attitude holder whose beliefs or other attitudes embed the clause that contains them. Based on these findings, the book argues that epithets are a type of pronoun, subject to interface restrictions concerning the semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports. The insights in this monograph raise new questions concerning the division of labour of the language faculty with respect to the processes and mechanisms involved in Binding Theory. |
| epithet examples in literature: Narrative and Drama in the Book of Revelation Lourdes García Ureña, 2019-08-29 Shows, with solid reasons, that the Book of Revelation has a literary form, similar to the short story. |
| epithet examples in literature: The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory Peter Auger, 2010-07-15 This Dictionary is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today, thorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope. The definitions are lively and precise in equipping students and general readers with a genuinely useful critical vocabulary. It identifies the thinking and controversies surrounding terms, and offers fresh insights and directions for future reading. It does this with the help of extensive cross-referencing, indexes and up-to-date bibliography (with recommended websites). |
| epithet examples in literature: The Use and Abuse of Literature Marjorie Garber, 2012-04-03 In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a radical way of thinking. But what is literature anyway, how has it been understood over time, and what is its relevance for us today? Who gets to decide what the word means? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato? Does it have any use at all, other than serving as bourgeois or aristocratic accoutrements attesting to one’s worldly sophistication and refinement of spirit? What are the boundaries that separate it from its “commercial” instance and from other more mundane kinds of writing? Is it, as most of us assume, good to read, much less study—and what would that mean? |
| epithet examples in literature: The Tale of Custard the Dragon Ogden Nash, Amy Blackwell, 2014 |
| epithet examples in literature: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms , 1996 |
| epithet examples in literature: Elements of Literature and Composition Lucius Adelno Sherman, 1908 |
| epithet examples in literature: The Iliad of Homer Homer, 1914 |
| epithet examples in literature: The Folder Effect Tom Holland, Tammy Holland, 2016-07-01 The Folder Effect delivers help for everyone with the statement; Think for Yourself! You think, act and say what your trainers have taught you to do. While you often change throughout life, it is only because you have spoken to another teacher who has provided a different path. Your parents, school teachers, coaches, clergy, friends, neighbors, relatives as well as your many circle of influences have taught you what to think, act and say. The Folder Effect presents you with an astonishing alternative; Think for Yourself! Your folders can be replaced by bigger and better ideas. You can begin to feel your self-esteem emerge. You will gain confidence and become successful. Why? Because your folders can now be stuffed by you. Learn how to build new folders and archive others with this easy-to-read, but powerful book. |
| epithet examples in literature: The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms Chris Baldick, 2008-03-20 The best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. It is now available in a new and expanded edition and includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, and schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction. It includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms. New to this edition are recommended entry-level web links updated via the Dictionary of Literary Terms companion website. |
| epithet examples in literature: The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and Illustrated with Examples John Franklin Genung, 1900 |
| epithet examples in literature: Slaughterhouse-five Kurt Vonnegut, 1969 Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present. |
| epithet examples in literature: An Essay on Man Alexander Pope, 1875 |
| epithet examples in literature: Literary Theory Jonathan Culler, Jonathan D. Culler, Professor of English Jonathan Culler, 1997 What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is Literature, and does it matter?These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in a book which steers a clear path through a subject often perceived to be complex and impenetrable. It offers discerning insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, whether literature is a form of self-expression ora method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools: deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and structuralism amongst them. |
| epithet examples in literature: The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien, 2009-10-13 A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. |
| epithet examples in literature: V for Vendetta (New Edition) Alan Moore, 2012-08-28 A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in atotalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything, comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fightspolitical oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts in this gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil. |
| epithet examples in literature: Bored of the Rings Henry Beard, The Harvard Lampoon, Douglas C. Kenney, 2012-10-30 Includes a new boreword by the author. |
| epithet examples in literature: Literary Genius of the Old Testament Percy Cooper Sands, 1924 |
| epithet examples in literature: English Literature and Ancient Languages Kenneth Haynes, 2003-10-09 Literature in English is hardly ever entirely in English. Contact with other languages takes place, for example, whenever foreign languages are introduced, or if a native style is self-consciously developed, or when aspects of English are remade in the image of another language. Since the Renaissance, Latin and Greek have been an important presence in British poetry and prose. This is partly because of the importance of the ideals and ideologies founded and elaborated on Roman and Greek models. Latin quotations and latinate English have always been ways to represent, scrutinize, or satirize the influential values associated with Rome. The importance of Latin and Greek is also due to the fact that they have helped to form and define a variety of British social groups. Lawyers, Catholics, and British gentlemen invested in Latin as one source of their distinction from non-professionals, from Protestants, and from the unleisured. British attitudes toward Greek and Latin have been highly charged because the animus that existed between groups has also been directed toward these languages themselves. English Literature and Ancient Languages is a study of literary uses of language contact, of English literature in conjunction with Latin and Greek. While the book's emphasis is literary, that is formal and verbal, its goal is to discover how social interests and cultural ideas are, and are not, mediated through language. |
| epithet examples in literature: Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy Albert Marrin, 2015-02-10 On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames. The factory was crowded. The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside. One hundred forty-six people—mostly women—perished; it was one of the most lethal workplace fires in American history until September 11, 2001. But the story of the fire is not the story of one accidental moment in time. It is a story of immigration and hard work to make it in a new country, as Italians and Jews and others traveled to America to find a better life. It is the story of poor working conditions and greedy bosses, as garment workers discovered the endless sacrifices required to make ends meet. It is the story of unimaginable, but avoidable, disaster. And it the story of the unquenchable pride and activism of fearless immigrants and women who stood up to business, got America on their side, and finally changed working conditions for our entire nation, initiating radical new laws we take for granted today. With Flesh and Blood So Cheap, Albert Marrin has crafted a gripping, nuanced, and poignant account of one of America's defining tragedies. |
| epithet examples in literature: The Sterling Dictionary Of Literary Terms Amrita Sharma, 1998 |
| epithet examples in literature: Death and Philosophy J.E Malpas, Robert C. Solomon, 2002-06-01 Death and Philosophy considers these questions with different perspectives varying from the existentialist - deriving from Camus, Heidegger or Sartre, to the English speaking analytic tradition of Bernard Williams or Thomas Nagel; to non-wester approaches such as are exemplified in the Tibetan Book of the Dead and in Daoist thought; to perspectives influenced by Lucretious, Epicurus and Nietzsche. Death and Philosophy will be of great interest to philosphers, or those studying religion and theology, buts its clarity and scope ensures it will be accessible to anyone who has considered what it means to be mortal. |
Epithet, sobriquet, and moniker: What's the difference?
Feb 20, 2018 · Epithet is a word or phrase that describes an attribute that characterizes a particular person. Usually, an epithet is disparaging, but not always. An epithet may also be a …
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Jul 5, 2021 · "Epithet" in the traditional sense of "Plinius the Elder" is limited to historical academia, so that greatly limits the utility of the word in the example sentence. Since I've most …
how did the epithet "nigger" come into usage?
Jan 6, 2012 · As Barrie England's reference indicates, it was originally neutral, and therefor not an epithet. The question that is not being addressed in any of the answers so far is the process …
What is the difference between a vocative and an epithet?
Nov 12, 2014 · My dictionary defines epithet as follows: n. an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned: old men are …
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Jun 21, 2020 · The epithet "wonderful" actually describes the kind of day the speaker experienced. Some other examples of transferred epithets are "cruel bars," "sleepless night," …
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It's about an epithet that was, I think, made popular only by the book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. In the series, the River Styx has been described and …
Can "yellow September sunlight" be considered an Epithet?
Oct 17, 2021 · I do not think so. The phrase does not seem to fit the OED definition of "epithet". 1.a. An adjective indicating some quality or attribute which the speaker or writer regards as …
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Jul 25, 2016 · I have looked online and most websites reference words such as cowardly and spooked. Those however don't seem to reflect what I am looking for. I am looking for a simple …
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Oct 31, 2024 · Questions tagged [epithet-requests] Ask Question Requests for nouns, adjectives, or phrases that answer ...
Epithet, sobriquet, and moniker: What's the difference?
Feb 20, 2018 · Epithet is a word or phrase that describes an attribute that characterizes a particular person. Usually, an epithet is disparaging, but not always. An epithet may also be a …
single word requests - A less derogatory alternative for "ep…
Jul 5, 2021 · "Epithet" in the traditional sense of "Plinius the Elder" is limited to historical academia, so that greatly limits the utility of the word in the example sentence. Since I've most …
how did the epithet "nigger" come into usage?
Jan 6, 2012 · As Barrie England's reference indicates, it was originally neutral, and therefor not an epithet. The question that is not being addressed in any of the answers so …
What is the difference between a vocative and an epithet?
Nov 12, 2014 · My dictionary defines epithet as follows: n. an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned: old men are …
poetry - What is the difference between 'transferred epithet' …
Jun 21, 2020 · The epithet "wonderful" actually describes the kind of day the speaker experienced. Some other examples of transferred epithets are "cruel bars," "sleepless night," and …
