Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

Epithets
I. Discuss the structure of epithets 
1. Can you tell me what time that game starts today?” The girl gave him a 
lipstick smile. (S.) 
2. The day was windless, unnaturally mid; since morning the san had tried to 
penetrate the cloud, and now above the Mall, the sky was still faintly luminous, 
colored like water over sand. (Hut.) 
3. Silent early morning dogs parade majestically pecking and choosing 
judiciously whereon to pee. (St.) 
4. The hard chairs were the newlywed-suit kind often on show in the windows 
of shops. (K. A.) 
5. ... whispered the spinster aunt with true spinster aunt-like envy ... (D.) 
6. I closed my eyes, smelling the goodness of her sweat and the sunshine-in-
the-breakfast-room smell of her lavender-water (J. Br.) 
7. Stark stared at him reflectively, that peculiar about to laugh about to cry, 
about to sneer expression on his face. (J) 
8. Eden was an adept at bargaining, but somehow all his cunning left him as he 
faced this Gibraltar of a man. (E.D.B.) 

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9. At his full height he was only up to her shoulder, a little dried-up pippin of a 
man. (G.) 
10. “Thief” Pilon shouted. “Dirty pig of an untrue friend”. (St.) 
11. An ugly gingerbread brute of a boy with a revolting grin and as far as I was 
able to ascertain, no redeeming qualities of any sort. (P.G.W.) 
12. A breeze ... blew curtains in and out like pale flags, twisting them up toward 
the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling. (Sc. F.) 
13. He wore proud boxing gloves of bandages for weeks after that. (St. B.) 
14. “I’d rather not know who did it. I’d rather not even think about it.” 
“Ostrich,” said her husband. (Ch.) 
15. “Fool! Idiot! Lunatic!” she protested vehemently. (P.G.W.) 
16. You shall pay me for the plague of having you eternally in my sight. Do 
you hear, damnable jade? (E. Br.) 
17. “Why, goddam you,” Bloom screamed. “You dirty, yellow, sneaking, 
twofaced, lying, rotten Wop you,” lie said, “yellow little Wop.” (J.)