Чет тиллар факультети инглиз тили ўҚитиш методикаси кафедраси

E.g. A heart-burning smile; sullen earth; voiceless sands [4]
Structurally, epithets are divided into [4]:
· Single:
E.g. He just stared at her with those gas flame-blue eyes. /Dean Koontz Cold Fire/
(of a very bright blue colour) [34]
· Two-step (i.e. adverb + adjective):
E.g. a stone cold deadtrail /James Herbert Others/ [23]
· Phrase (i.e. a group of hyphonated words):
E.g.Jim looked at me with a what-can-you-do? grin. /T. Parson Man and Boy/ [44]
· Reversed (or inverted) epithets (i.e. presented by of-phrases):
E.g. the melancholy mask of a bloodhound /Dean Koontz Whispers/ [40]
E.g. a big bruiser of a man /James Herbert Others/ [23]
OXYMORON is a combination of two words (mostly an adiective and a noun or an adverb with an adjective) in which the meanings of the two clash, being opposite in sense.
E.g. low skyscrapers; sweet sorrow; a pleasantly ugly face. [4]
Oxymoron helps to emphasize contradictory qualities as a unity in the described phenomenon. [4, p.162]
E.g. The flight engineer was paging through a manual, a look of quiet desperation on his face. /Dean Koontz Cold Fire/ [34]
ANTONOMASIA helps to single out one definite object out of a whole class of similar objects. It is a trope in which a Proper name is used instead of a Common noun or vice versa. [5, p.54] Here the nominal meaning of a Proper name is hardly perceived, because its logical meaning is too strong or the logical meaning is suppressed by the nominal component. [4, 164]
E.g. “Thank you, Mr. Dismas,” she said in a breathless, Marilyn Monroe way. /James Herbert Others/ (a proper name) [23]
E.g. “Listen to you, Mr. Amateur Magician, sounding like a Puritan. I love it!” /Stephen King Needful Things/ (a common noun) [31]
Antonomasia stresses the most characteristic feature of a person. It is also represented by ‘speaking names’, whose origin from common nouns is clearly perceived: