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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Epitheton Example

An example of epitheton is as follows:

"I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice."

Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance


Notice that in this example, the adjective majestic is used to characterize the scorn.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/epitheton.htm

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