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Zorluk: ZorLiterary Devices and Figurative Language

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.

Cevap: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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1
Analyze the modifier-noun relationship in the phrase 'sleepless night'.
The quality of being 'sleepless' belongs to the defense counsel experiencing insomnia, but it is grammatically transferred to the inanimate noun 'night'.
When an adjective or epithet is transferred from the person it properly belongs to onto another related noun or object, the literary device is a transferred epithet (hypallage).
2
Analyze the relationship between the term 'hungry mouths' and the human beings it represents.
The word 'mouths' is a specific physical part of a person used to represent the whole person (the villagers/dependents who require food).
When a part of something is used to signify the whole entity (or vice versa), the figure of speech is synecdoche.

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Identification of Transferred Epithet and Synecdoche in Prescribed Literary Text
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