Hyperbole

states his emotions after his love, Virginia Clemm, was sentenced to death by consumption. This poem describes how she was beautiful and angelic, even on her journey to Heaven. In “Lenore”, Poe uses many literary devices including allusion, extensive hyperbole, and clear rhyme to depict a mournful theme of undying love that has broken his heart. First of all, Poe uses allusion many times throughout “Lenore”, Since the poem is based on Virginia Clemm and her death, along with the deaths of…

trained frog. A notorious gambler, Jim was startled one day when a stranger fed his frog lead and made Jim lose the bet. In the tall tale “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, it uses caricatures or comic characters, and hyperbole to convey the universal truth of don't be too overconfident because it could come back to hurt or mislead someone.…

lot of mean people. In the reading Dave Barry Teaches his Grandson Life’s Lessons-Beginning With the Ketchup the author Dave Barry talks about how mean people and things can be in this world. This is a high level comedic text that uses sarcasm and hyperbole to expose the truth that the world is a harsh place. First, the writer Dave Barry uses sarcasm to show how some people aren't nice. Barry talks about how people think the concept of being nice is easy but in reality they aren't nice. In the…

writes a letter for his wife to read with hopefulness of bringing them to be with him and enjoy the better life they will have in the United States than in England; a letter that is filled with rhetorical devices of polyasyndeton, great diction, hyperbole, and pathos, written in order to persuade his wife to bring the whole family to come over to the United States and live with him. The author's diction is in the semantic field of hopefulness throughout the first third paragraph in which Downe…

living in poverty in the ghetto of New York City. Yezierska’s use of a hyperbole and irony really emphasize the fact that Sarah's parents have been holding in their grudges for each other, leading to poor communication that later leads to an epic dispute. For so long, Sarah’s mother has been keeping her anger with her husband inside, but after he lost their family a fortune and had no remorse, she went ballistic. Mother’s hyperbole provokes the conclusion that Jeb’s confusing ideas of religion…

The speaker, Lou Gehrig, uses 3 rhetorical devices, irony, hyperbole, and metaphor to convey his message that even though he’s in a bad spot right now, he has had and still will have a good life. Lou starts off his speech with, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Lou stated that he has had a bad break but still considered himself the luckiest man on earth, which is situational irony.…

fleas and giant flying cats, and berry hints at this in the story. Dave Barry's short story called “mutant fleas terrorize midwest”, there were lots of examples of high humor, more than low humor. In most cases, there are examples of irony, and hyperbole, to making satire for us have somewhat of a sensible chuckle. Like the title, these examples include tax plans, mutant vampire fleas, and the story going back on itself when it talks about giant flying cats. One of the elements of humor in this…

in American literature . The effect of his discipline approach to the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County” incorporated figurative language like simile as well as hyperboles to further expand the the characteristics of the frog as well as other characters . He also incorporated hyperboles to exaggerate the certain situation and features the characters have . Furthermore in the short story Mark Twain emphasizes that “He had a small bull pup you'd think he was worth a…

Robin Benway, in her novel, Emmy and Oliver, uses metaphors, personification, and hyperbole to expand on the dramatic plot of her book. This would cause readers to really feel a connection of grief to the main character, Emmy, and her friends, due to the situation they were going through of losing their friend for so many years. Benway expands on the shocking fact of Oliver coming back from being kidnapped by his dad for many years by using metaphors quite often. “Preserved in amber,” “A…

In Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Daddy,” she introduces the notion of oppression by comparing her father to the Nazis and herself to the Jews, with the use of multiple literary devices. In “Daddy,” Plath uses allusion, imagery and metaphor with a mix of hyperbole to develop the theme of oppression. In the poem “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath uses allusion to express her father’s oppression towards her. The author uses multiple allusions to refer how the Jews were oppressed by the Nazis, which is how she is…