Lecture the nature, types and functions of lexical stylistic devices: hyperbole, antonomasia, zeugma and pun

LECTURE 7. THE NATURE, TYPES AND FUNCTIONS OF LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES: HYPERBOLE, ANTONOMASIA, ZEUGMA and PUN.

lecturer: M.Kh. Dalieva, Senior teacher

Outline

• Definition, structure, semantics and functions of Hyperbole.
• Definition, semantics and functions of Antonomasia.
• Definition, semantics and functions of Zeugma.
• Definition, semantics and functions of Pun.

HYPERBOLE

Hyperbole is stylistic device which is also based on the interaction of logical and emotive meaning. It gives a deliberate exaggeration: million -coloured rainbow (Shelley)

There are actually seven colours in the spectrum. Shelley's hyperbole emphasizes the beauty of that rainbow .

“Look deep into your soul and puder on my words:

To you I am a puzzle, my person and verse.

My life has been a struggle, a thousand foes I braved Don't judge me too severely -for you the way I paved.”

HYPERBOLE

So hyperbole is a statement fancifully exaggerated through excitement or for effect. By such overstatement something is represented as much greater or less, better or worse:

When people say “I've told fifty times”,

They mean to scold and very often do.

Hyperbole can be trite and genuine:

I beg you a thousand pardons to be scared, t be tickled to death.

HYPERBOLE

Hyperbole can be expressed by a word, combination of words, a sentence or several sentences.

“The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in and the sun and moon were made to give them light .Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships ,rainbows gave them promise of fair weather ,winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits to preserve a system of which they were the centre”. The notions expressed by hyperboles generally do not correspond to reality but both writer and the reader are fully aware of this fact. The notions expressed by hyperboles convey the idea of Mr Dombey's life.