Question

Select the correct answer. In the following lines from Beowulf, what literary technique has the poet used in the underlined words? To many it seemed the wolf-of-the-waves had won his life
A. synecdoche
B. epithet
C. kenning
D. litotes

Answer 1

Answer:

B- Epithet

Explanation:

Because in the sentence fragment " wolf-of-the-waves" is a discriptive phrase, referring to Grendel's mother.

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