Discussion
What figure of speech has been used by Dryden to make fun of Shadwell in the following lines :
Sh ........ alone my perfect image bears,
Mature in dullness from his tender years.
Sh ......... alone, of all my Sons, is he
Who stands confirmed in full stupidity.
Answer: C
The key's answer is juxtaposition.
The lines are from Dryden's mock-heroic Mac Flecknoe (1682), in which the dull poet Flecknoe chooses Shadwell as his heir. The satire works by setting words of honour and praise side by side with words of dullness: 'my perfect image', 'mature', 'confirmed' and 'full' sit against 'dullness' and 'stupidity'. This placing of incongruous terms together is what the key calls juxtaposition.
A transferred epithet moves an adjective from its proper noun to another ('a sleepless night'). Synecdoche uses a part for the whole, and metonymy a related thing for the thing itself. None is the device in these lines.
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