active vs. passive voice, or epithet?

["kelly keck" <kelly -dot- keck -at- imagine-one -dot- com>]

Ned wrote:

>Epithet is a new condition for me, thanks for drawing the distinction.
I 
>hope I understand it, but my literary legs are a bit wobbly.

>   Just take care of confusing passive voice and epithet.
>   "The window is big, blue, shiny, displayed and functional."
>   No passive form there.
>    
>   Regards,
>    
>   YJ

The term "epithet" is a new one on me too, Ned.  I'd heard that
construction described as a "complement" or "predicate adjective."    

Incidentally, I would still call "The window is displayed" passive
voice, because "displayed" is a verb rather than a noun or adjective.
It's not quite parallel with the other adjective examples.

Kelly    

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