Hyperbole

Love is often portrayed as a beneficial and a desiredwanted emotion because it bears the results of feeling good. When seen from the outside, only the good parts of relationships involving love are seen, such as others holding hands and spending quality time together. Therefore, many gain the misconception that love is a picture-perfect emotion that they end up longing for. Although love appears to not have conflict, romantic love makes those who receive it initially feel joy and happiness, but…

Why the fuck did I wear my USNA class ring? My career prospects ruined on the first day onboard CG-61, the USS Monterey. While I was reading Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise, the commanding officer entered through the wardroom’s hatch. He seemed civil at first, almost pleasant. As pleasant as a salty sailor with 20 years at sea could be, that is. While he was examining his new junior officer, me, his eyes locked onto the ring’s sapphire. Immediately vivid, his eyes turned to daggers that aimed…

What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence Image and finance are major aspects any business needs to keep control of to be able to be successful and achieve greatness for the company. However, one small issue not addressed or even notice could hinder any business to progress forward. In Sam Dillon’s article “What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence”, the author addresses that big businesses are spending large amounts of money on remedial training for their employees which has…

stop the sexism that has been going around in the superhero comic book industry, Berlatsky uses the logos Aristotelian appeal to inform the comic book audience that girls have been a fan of comics since decades ago. He also managed in using the hyperbole and aphorism rhetorical strategies to show that boys see girls differently and don’t belong in this industry. As a matter of fact, Berlatsky uses aphorism in one of the first paragraphs. Berlatsky states, “This is especially the case because…

‘Implicature is a component of speaker meaning that constitutes an aspect of what is meant in a speaker’s utterance without being part of what is said’ (Horn 2006: 3). Broadly speaking, what speaker intends to say is definitely richer than what he directly expresses. This term means the literal sense and non-literal sense of utterance (Horn 2006: 3). Herbert Paul Grice focused on what is said, what particular words mean, what the speaker wants to convey, what the speaker really conveys. Korta…

Emma’s independent nature has been ‘shot down’ and superseded by feelings for an ideal candidate in marriage – the socially compatible and patriarchal Mr Knightley. Furthermore, when Emma mockingly contemplates Mr. Elton’s endeavor to court her, the hyperbole in “The Eltons [bloodline] were nobody” highlights the resentment of the gentility towards socially incompatible matches. Similarly, Cher comments with a forthright tone that “no respectable girl” should date a ‘loadie’, highlighting how…

individuals are often so busy in their self-endeavours that they often forget about their duties. However, Prospero is able to reflect upon this discovery and as a result gives up his magical powers which he uses to maintain control over others. The hyperbole in “…I’ll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth…” represents a self-actualisation in the character of Prospero as he decides to end his control over others. Furthermore, Prospero also represents Christian values of…

As Beyoncé would say, “The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.” The poem, Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou and the painting, Rosie No.1 painted by Tim Okamura are two texts that effectively reflect the theme of inner strength and confidence in women and as such, should be included in the third instalment of the “Visions” series of textbooks. The poem, Phenomenal Woman is from Phenomenal Woman: Four Poem Celebrating Women which is a book Maya Angelou published in 1995. The 2014…

that it even exist. There is no denying that if you are white you will always have more advantages than a person of color. If you are closed minded you may not see what white privilege is or that it even exist. People act as if people of color hyperbole, however, they never go through what they have to experience. We all have different views on everything but you have to be willing to see how other people see things. White privilege is being able to walk down the street…

The media will often pick and choose from a subject or story, revealing only the bits of information that support their own agenda. Word choice is also very calculated, effectively slanting the writing towards the positive or negative. This charged language manipulates people by injecting bias into information that is advertised as neutral and accurate. The essay “Selection, Slanting, and Charged Language” by Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk, both authors of Understanding and Using English,…