Name the figure of speech in this line.
"The prisoner paced his lonely cell."

Transferred epithetCorrect answerYour answerOxymoronCorrect answerYour answerSimileCorrect answerYour answerHyperboleCorrect answerYour answer

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Correct answer: A

The prisoner is lonely, not the cell. Moving a describing word from a person onto a thing near them is a transferred epithet.

Worth noting

"Lonely" and "cell" are not opposites, so it is not an oxymoron.

Ten questions from Figures of speech, at your own pace.

Ten questions from Figures of speech, at your own pace.

Name the figure of speech in this line."The prisoner paced his lonely cell."