Among the wealth of Russian occupy a special place means of expression, such as the antithesis, metaphor, metonymy, litotes, hyperbole, synecdoche, and, of course, the epithet.Examples epithets in our lives, we see everywhere, unconsciously use in speech, but do not realize is how a unique means of expression own.This article will talk more about what the epithet.Examples will help to understand better and more clearly than the epithet differs from other means of expression the great and mighty Russian language.For example, how is it different from the metaphors and whether it is.
So, what is the epithet?Examples of the following adjectives: velvet night, gold hands, brilliant role, brilliant performance, white light, the honored artist, the gray wolf.
examples of epithets can be driven very much, even the word "light" you can choose up to 10 of epithets.That is, the epithet - it trails expressive means of language.In a broader sense, the adjective - a word or phrase that the proposal takes on new meaning, and describe objects in allocates certain features.Thus, the reader evaluates described object from a different perspective.The epithet along with metaphor, metonymy and other means of expression, gives the subject, as well as the text, a certain expressive color.
is no consensus regarding the grammatical forms of adjectives does not exist.Some scientists, for example, Kwiatkowski, believe that the epithet in the proposal may be only an adjective-definition.Others are inclined to think that as an epithet can be any part of the speech, if it is decisive for the other word.This so-called broad approach to understanding the lexical and semantic meaning of the epithet.If we consider the epithet from the position of this approach, it can perform the role of an adverb even if it carries the author's perception of the phenomenon of shade.For example: insanely glad to whistle furiously, desperately trying furiously to defend itself.
also epithet may be an application, for example: beautiful girl, you fool, an ignoramus, a cow-nurse, Ivan the Fool and others.
Despite the existence of a broad approach, most linguists believe the epithet is the defining word in attributive constructions, built on the model of A + N, adjective (A, adjective) + noun (N, noun).
epithets are often used in poetry.Homer used the epithet - in his "Iliad," there are such epithets as crafty Odysseus, Achilles footed.This is called a permanent epithet or frozen definition.
known linguist Zhirmunsky points out that epithet in a broad sense - is, in fact, any definition that highlights and emphasizes a feature of an object.In the narrow sense of the epithet - decorating features characteristic of classicism.
From the history of the epithet can be seen that at first they were persistent in certain words, such as the dark sea, starry night, crowned ruler.
By structural characteristics can be distinguished simple, fused, compound, complex epithet.Examples of complex epithets are often found in the poetry of Anna Akhmatova.
