Epithet || Exposition |Literary Terms
Epithet
Basically an adjective placed before or after a person or a thing.
For example:
" Swifi -footed Achilles", "god-like Hector", "red-haired Menelaus", laughter-loving Aphrodite", "white-armed Helen", Ox- eyed queen", "Athene of the flashing eyes", Alexander the Great," weary way", "labouring clouds" etc.
An epithet is used as a substitute for the description of some of the characteristics of a person or thing.
Exposition
The beginning of a play which artistically presents some of the past and present events and hints at what is coming next.
It builds the background of the plot, introduces the major theme(s), character(s) and locates the story in time and place. It sets the tone of the play.
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Figures of Speech
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