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Hyperbole  54 Task 1. Differentiate between the traditional and the genuine



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Hyperbole 


54
Task 1. Differentiate between the traditional and the genuine 
hyperboles in the following sentences: 
1.
God I saw it ten times. 
2.
I remember a friend of mine buying a couple of cheese sat Liverpool. 
Splendid cheeses they were ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse – 
power scent about them might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock 
a man over at two hundred yards. (J. K. Jerome). 
3.
He is a second cousin – such a child, about six month older and ten years 
younger than I am. (Galsworthy). 
4.
Mother pottered absent mindedly round the vast, stone – fragged kitchen, 
preparing galloons of beef – tea and trying to listen to Lugaretzia. (Ger. Durrel). 
5.
I thought if I went on waiting till Mary came to see me I’d have to wait till 
doomsday, so I thought the best thing I could do was to come and see her myself. 
(W. S. Maugham). 
6.
I was scared to death. 
7.
I was thunder –stick. 
8.
The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in and the sun and the 
moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their 
ships ;winds blew for and against their enterprises.(Galsworthy) 
9.
She was utterably astonished. 
10.
My dear friend ,how have you been this century 
Stylistic functions of Hyperbole
 
 
to create humorous effect and to express 
the author’s attitude towards the 
described. 
to show the emotional state of the 
personages at the moment of his uttering 
the remark 


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 Task 2. Define hyperboles and comment on them: 
 
2.
She was very much upset by the catastrophe that have befallen the 
Bishops, but it was exiting, and she was tickled to death to have someone fresh to 
whom she could tell all about it. (S. Maugham). 
2. The car was speeding at breakneck pace over snowy white road. 
(Th.Dreiser). 
3. You’ve been a lawyer for fifty years, and that white – haired lady at your 
side has eaten over fifty thousand meals with you. (Th. Wilder). 
4. This is Rome. Nobody has kept a secret in Rome for three thousand years. 
(I. Shaw). 
5. She has a nose that’s at least three inches too long. (A. Huxley). 
6. And she was capable of a giant joy, so did the harbor huge sorrow, so that 
when his dog died, the world ended. (Steinbeck). 


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