Question

Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence:
He ran a curious eye over the sports section in the newspaper.

• A. Metonymy
• B. Synecdoche
• C. Transferred epithet
• D. Hyperbole

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Transferred epithet

Transferred Epithet mean a word which modifies a noun other than a person or a thing it describes. Option C)Transferred Epithet is correct as "curious eye" means that his mind is curious, not his eye. The other options are wrong as metonymy, synecdoche, and hyperbole mean a representative word which stands for something else, a word which is a term for a part of something but refers to the whole of it, and a figure of speech in which something is exaggerated and doesn't mean to be taken literallyrespectively. The correct answer is C)Transferred Epithet.