Epitheton Example

Here is another example of Epitheton:


"I will give the people a vision of Rome and they'll love me for it. And they'll soon forget the tedious sermonizing of a few dry old men."
-Joaquin Phoenix, Gladiator


The underlined sections of this sentence, tedious sermonizing and few dry old men, are examples of epitheton because there is an adjective used to describe a person or thing.


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