Read the literary excerpt below carefully and complete the analytical statement by filling in the blanks with the precise literary devices demonstrated in the passage.
Answer:In the excerpt, 'Throughout the harrowing trial, the defense counsel endured a sleepless night preparing his final submission, mindful that fifty hungry mouths back in the commune depended entirely on his success,' the description in 'sleepless night' exemplifies a 【transferred epithet】, whereas using 'hungry mouths' to represent fifty living individuals demonstrates 【synecdoche】.
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The first blank is 'transferred epithet' (or 'hypallage') and the second blank is 'synecdoche'.
The phrase 'sleepless night' is a transferred epithet (or hypallage) because sleeplessness is a human condition experienced by the attorney, but transferred to modify the noun 'night'. The phrase 'hungry mouths' is a synecdoche because 'mouths' is a part of the human body chosen specifically to represent the complete human beings depending on him.
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Identification of Transferred Epithet and Synecdoche in Prescribed Literary Text