Examples of transferred epithets (hypallage – sounds like hīpólogy)
The One and the Many
A hundred hands, a hundred eyes
Tore it all to bits. She said I lied.
“Just once,” I said, too many times
More or Less
Only the birds heard her taloned cries.
The man had told her feathered lies.
The Lesson
Don’t lie unless you have the art
To say it true and strike her heart.
Valedictory
Off with his head, the pirate cried.
Her sword was true. The creature died.