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The term "spotted" performs a variety of roles in literary language, functioning both as a descriptive adjective and dynamic verb. It is used to evoke vivid imagery by detailing the appearance of objects and creatures—for instance, a "small black‐spotted trout" [1] and a leopard’s "spotted hide" [2] illustrate its capacity to render nature’s patterns in clear, concrete terms. At the same time, authors employ it to denote the act of detection, as when characters "spotted the object his hand was indicating" [3] or "spotted a boot under the window curtain" [4]. Moreover, it carries metaphorical weight in contexts that extend beyond mere physical description, such as marking a soul with sin or disgrace [5][6]. Thus, through its dual usage as both a marker of visual texture and as a signal of perception or moral symbolism, "spotted" enriches literary narratives by bridging tangible detail with deeper thematic resonance.
  1. Cracker Lake is always ready to fill the creel with a small black-spotted trout.
    — from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior
  2. A leopard's spotted hide his shoulders spread: A brazen helmet glitter'd on his head: Thus (with a javelin in his hand)
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  3. But Ned Land was not mistaken, and we all spotted the object his hand was indicating.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  4. Next instant I spotted a boot under the window curtain, and then I saw why plain enough.
    — from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
  5. Terrible hell make war Upon their spotted souls for this offence!
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  6. Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted; Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted.
    — from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

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