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A figure of speech in which a qualifying adjective is sometimes transferred from a person to a thing or from one word to another, to which it does not strictly belong, is called

  1. Metonymy

  2. Transferred Epithet

  3. Apostrophe

  4. Personification
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Explanation

A Transferred Epithet is when an adjective describing a person is transferred to an inanimate object or abstract quality, such as 'an angry lecture' (where the speaker is angry, not the lecture itself). This distinguishes it from metonymy, apostrophe, or personification.

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