Hyperbole

A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift is a satirical essay, in which Swift gives a detailed over the top explanation for how to deal with the poor Irish. When Swift wrote this essay, fully titled “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick”, there were many others who were writing pamphlets on how to deal with the growing poverty rate in Britain at the time. Swift used over the…

literary elements are chiasm, allusion, hyperbole, metonymy, personification, acrostic, merism and type. Chiasm is everywhere in the word of God. Writers use this type of literate to add importance to their writings. They use this highlight the points of importance. Chiasm is the repetition sound. Two examples of Chiasm are…

stanzas, strong verbs, specific nouns, pronouns, 3+ adjectives & adverbs, personification, hyperbole, idiom, onomatopoeia, alliteration, simile, metaphor, sensory details (5 senses).…

Mark Twain, in his juvenalian essay “The War Prayer” (1923) lambasts war and the motivations behind fighting them. He supports his argument by incorporating potent sarcastic diction, utilizing hyperbole, and by the use of hypocrisy. Twain’s purpose is to convey the absurdity of war and to examine what he believes to be the asinine motivations behind going to war, especially those of a religious and patriotic nature, in the hope that future conflict is avoided. He adopts an ironic tone (“An aged…

Sonnet 130 Have you ever read a poem and did not understand it, even after reading it over and over again? Authors use things such as figurative language in order for you to have to think to figure out the poem is saying. Knowing what figurative language is may help you figure out the poem. Figurative language is “used with a meaning that is different from the basic meaning and that expresses an idea in an interesting way by using language that usually describes something else.” (Merriam…

He relies highly on the hyperbole, which demonstrates his love in a vivacious way, and these hyperboles plays the role somehow similar to metaphors and simile, comparing his love to the fantastic events. For instance, line seven and eight states that “And I will luve thee still, my dear, /Till a’ the seas gang dry…

"chair curved insidiously to his back...which [engulfs and overpowers] him" (2.31). Fitzgerald uses hyperbole to condemn the overabundances of the rich, and without this language, his message would lose its point, penetrating knowledge into the twisted minds of the rich. The hospitality and graciousness of the family are exaggerated in order to satirize the overabundances of the rich. By utilizing hyperbole, Fitzgerald denounces the visually impaired quest for riches and the self-serving nature…

In the clocks speech, hyperbole and metaphors are also used, but they create an opposing attitude. For example, when Auden writes “A crack in the teacup opens / A lane to the land of the dead”, he is using a metaphor and hyperbole to explain his point. The pressure of time caused the once beautiful teacup to fracture and break. The crack does not literally open a road that leads…

else because others are not always as the seem. This theme accentuates that people can save themselves from regrets if they truly get to know each other. In the rising action, Wetherell implies the choice of not changing through the hyperbole…

In Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Veldt, the author uses vivid imagery and metaphor to enhance the reader’s depiction of the story and transport them into a futuristic world that we have not yet experienced. The Hadley’s are a futuristic family living in an automated house system, the Happylife Home. It cooks for them, gives them baths, and serves them in anyway possible, and the parents, George and Lydia Hadley had installed a nursery for their two children, Wendy and Peter. The siblings…