Hyperbole

Donne declares love a quick draw, a tyrant and a powerful master that can turn even the strongest hearts to glass. In the first stanza, the speaker compares love to the plague and to a powder blast using metaphor and hyperbole. He states: “Who will believe me, if I swear/ That I have had the plague a year?/ Who would not laugh at me, if I should say/ I saw a flash of powder burn a day?” He extends the metaphor to love saying that no one could possibly be in love for an hour, because love can…

marriage. The play uses comic techniques such as metaphor and hyperbole to exaggerate the There is additionally a change in characters attitude because of deceit, misunderstanding or overhearing of particular parts of a conversation and basing assumptions off that. The exploration of how other people’s perception of one effects their perception…

By using a hyperbole, the author wanted to exaggerate the zombie like state in which these solders were in. These solders felt dead inside because of what they have gone through and seen, they were exhausted, and frankly they were marching and following each other blindly…

play, Hamlet, is one of the longest plays and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature. Shakespeare has created striking imagery with a variety of commonly used techniques, such as metaphors, allusions, symbolism, hyperboles and motifs. These techniques were developed in a way that readers today may have found it difficult to get around Shakespeare’s understanding because his interpretations are well beyond today 's modern English language. These language features…

English literature thinking I had found the perfect compromise… felt I was staring at the bottom of the abyss. I had seen the flaw in my life of halfwayness, in my planned life of compromises.” The following statement was effective because she uses hyperbole to strongly express displeasure she has faced by trying to compromise with her parents intentions for her success. Usually a persons dream for their future are extremely significant and she has settled for something else because she tried to…

life. As a scholar once noted about Gogol, “His is the theater of destruction, distortion and hyperbole, and it is also a moral and angry theater in that it teaches, through tragic-comic slapstick, a lesson in shattered complacencies.” This is an accurate depiction of The Government Inspector, which…

crud that was left behind. David Barry finds situations like these infuriating. To empathise his hatred of littering, Barry wrote the short story “A Couple of Really Neat Guys”, which uses hyperbole and eccentric characters to convey that littering is wrong. In “A Couple of Really Neat Guys”, Barry uses hyperbole to describe “The Picnic People from Hell”. By using…

Once” by Margaret Atwood, the author describes Western culture stereotypes by questioning them to such extremes that the narrator is finally incapable to tell her/his story. The author uses the high comedy, humorous elements of situational irony and hyperboles to communicate the theme that meaning and importance can be lost in over-generalization or over- specificity. One of the comedic effects the author uses in this short story is situational irony. Situational irony is irony involving a…

Figurative Language is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. It’s very common and used frequently in poems to allow people to express abstract thoughts and emotions but also helps develop a tone. Figurative language is a great thing because it helps the reader establish a better image in their minds about what they are reading but it also creates a mood. Therefore authors use figurative language in order to engage their reader…

Henry uses irony along with hyperbole in order to add a sense of humor to the story. Bill and Sam both expect Dorset to pay for his son back. Situational irony occurs when they receive a response to the ransom. Dorset actually asks them to “bring Johnny home and pay” him “two hundred…