文档介绍：Chapter Eight: Hyperbole; Euphemism and Understatement
Hyperbole is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis.
Instead of saying in plain language
Thank you very much.
She is very pretty
He laughed heartily.
We can express the same ideas or feelings more emphatically by saying:
1a. Thanks a million.
is the prettiest girl in the world.
almost died laughing.
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Effects:
of feeling or emotion.
A. I. Joy
1) Belinda smiled, and the entire world was gay.
2) I’m the happiest man in the world.
B. Love and admiration
For she was beautiful---her beauty make
The bright world dim, and everything beside
Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade. (Shelly)
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Other examples:
Polly, I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars….
I beg a thousand pardons.
I was scared to death.
I’d give worlds to see you.
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impressive
Ghost: I could unfold a tale whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Makes thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
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Thy knotted bined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine
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要剥首相的头皮
The results (of the recent local election) encourages conservative critics who were calling for Thatcher’s scalp in the face of poll-tax protests, 8 percent unemployment, 15 percent-plus interest rates and a huge trade deficit.
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The use of Hyperbole;
It was the trial that rocked the world.
His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.
My blood froze.
Her face was washed in sweat.
She was eaten up with jealousy.
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It is not the ape, nor the tiger in man that I fear, it is the donkey.
It was a mean room that flared up at her, long and narrow; the kind that seemed old even when it was new.
The choir almost burst with pride.
He looked half dead, his eyes closed tight.
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Euphemism
Euphemism: It is a figure of speech in which less exact but mi