Hyperbole

In Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut’s use of hyperbole helps to further his overall message of the story, in which oppressing humans in order to make everyone equal, only makes them rebel. I think when Vonnegut says that “everybody was finally equal,” he used this as his overall hyperbole, because that was his main exaggeration. Not everyone is equal, because not everyone is being equally oppressed. Those who are beautiful and smart are made…

students from receiving the help that they need. Anna Quindlen was trying to bring mental health into the forefront of medical diseases across the nation and helped stop the stigma of mental illness. She is able to accomplish this through the use of hyperbole to emphasize the lack of understanding on how to help…

Essayist Jonathan Swift, in his appalling, yet rational “Modest Proposal” presents a solution to the country’s economic crisis by selling the children of impoverished households to the wealthy as a form of sustainable sustenance. Through the use of hyperbole and irony, Swift, in a highly sardonic tone, reveals the absurdity of England’s oppression on Ireland’s economy while also exposing the callousness of the wealthy upper class. While the entire piece itself was widely hyperbolic, Swift…

Reading Response 2 1. A few examples of hyperbole from Miss Chestnut’s dialogue in the first few paragraphs are: “You’re up and down like a flea.”, “I’m assuming you weren't raised by animals.”, and “Is she blind, your mother?”. Sedaris’ use of hyperbole in Miss Chestnuts dialogue reads as snarky and witty which establishes a humorous tone for this piece. 2. I perceived sedaris’ characterization of miss chestnut as a kind of crotchety and uptight old woman. His use of language is effective in…

Turner. Edward Hirsch did this because Mr. Turner was a really good friend or family member who loved the game of basketball. Mr. Edward Hirsch uses vivid language, and hyperboles in “Fast Break’ to show a hard working team re-bounding the ball and hurrying to score, before time runs out. Throughout “Fast Break” the poet uses hyperboles to make his poem very dramatic. For example, (L.11) “looks stunned and nailed to the floor.” This line shows that he is over exaggerating because the…

notebook paper folds it, flips it horizontally and on the right end he writes “hyperbole north”, and near the left end he writes “hyperbole south”, and in the middle he writes “seven-eleven” and then a customer is ready to be rung up when they’re gone, he takes his hyperbole map back out, stares at it for a while, and begins drawing barely visible lines, strings if you will connecting seven-eleven, and the hyperboles and…

In his letter written to persuade his wife to look past the “inconveniences in crossing the Atlantic” and join him in America, John Downe employs the use of polysyndetic syntax, hyperbole, and loving and sincere language, the last of which works particularly well in creating an intensely personal tone. Downe’s excitement and enthusiasm in regards to the benefits of America are acutely expressed in his use of polysyndeton while describing the countryside’s amenities. He writes that the…

high level comedy that uses Sarcasm and Hyperbole to reveal a Universal truth about how parents will want to teach their children life lessons so the children can get by in life. In the Essay “Live Right and find Happiness”, has plenty of Hyperbole in it. For example, in the middle the Essay, Barry says, “Don’t bully and don’t hit people, unless they are bullying you, in which case go ahead and belt them” ( 2/4 Barry). This quote contains Hyperbole, because Barry is using extreme…

Dickens satirizes the state of England in the way that the country refused to adapt and improve as though that increased its respectability. Dickens uses irony and hyperbole to emphasize this criticism, using Tellson’s Bank as a representation of England. As an illustration, Dickens utilizes irony when he writes, “the partners in the House were...proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness...an active weapon which they flashed at more convenient places of business”. Tellson’s Bank is a…

first hand account of his experience in Auschwitz. The horrors he faced are described vividly and the effect it had on him is made clear in his memoir. From beginning to end, the memoir is intense and illuminating. Wiesel uses overstatement, or hyperbole, to evoke strong emotions in order to encourage people to treat everyone respect, so that the horrors of Auschwitz never happen again. The terror the camps created can be seen even before the Jews enter Auschwitz. Wiesel uses overstatement to…