Which literary device is used when the dragon is referred to as 'cowardly'?

Hyperbole

Epithet

Onomatopoeia

Irony

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B. Epithet

'Cowardly' is an epithet, which is a descriptive term. Hyperbole exaggerates, onomatopoeia relates to sound, and irony implies contrast.

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