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square table tired table
high mountain mysterious mountain
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SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION OF EPITHETS
SIMPLE PHRASE
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COMPOUND
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SIMPLE AND COMPOUND EPITHETS
• Verbal irony
With verbal irony it is always possible to
indicate the word whose contextual meaning
opposes the dictionary meaning.
E.g. It’s a downpour again. What nice weather
we’re having today!
TYPES OF IRONY
• Sustained irony
The effect of irony is created by a number of statements which
contain the contradiction between the said and the implied.
E.g. I like a parliamentary debate,
Particularly when ‘tis no too late.
I like the taxes, when they’re not too many;
I like a seacoal fire, when not too dear;
I like a beef-steak, too, as well as any…
I like the weather, when it is not rainy,
That is I like two months of every year (‘Beppo’ Byron)
FUNCTIONS OF IRONY