Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

Irony 
I. Analyse the following cases of irony, paying attention to the length of the 
context necessary to realize it: 
1. Contentedly Sam Clark drove off, in the heavy traffic of three Fords and the 
Minniemashie House Free Bus. (S,L.) 
2. Stoney smiled the sweet smile of an alligator. (St.)
3. Henry could get gloriously tipsy on tea and conversation. (A. H.) 
4. She had so painfully reared three sons to be Christian gentlemen that one of 
them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. 
Bogard a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the 
toughest gang in Boytown. (S. L.) 
5. Even at this affair, which brought out the young smart set, the hunting squire 
set, the respectable intellectual, they sat up with gaiety as with a corpse. (S.L.) 
6. If there’s a war, what are you going to be in?” Liphook asked. The 
Government, I hope,” Tom said, “Touring the lines in an armored car, my great belly 
shaking like a jelly. Hey did you hear that? That’s poetry” (J. Br.). 
7. He could walk and run, was full of exact knowledge about God, and 
entertained no doubt concerning the special partiality of a minor deity called Jesus 
towards himself. (A. B.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Hyperbole 
I. Differentiate between the traditional and the genuine hyperboles in the 
following examples. 
1. When she dropped her pose and smiled down she discovered Kennicott 
apoplectic with domestic pride . . (S. L.) 
2. Tom was conducted through a maze of rooms and labyrinths of passages. 
(D.) 
3. A worn tweed coat on her looked, he always though worth ten times the 
painful finery of the village girl^ (St. B.) 
4. One night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous 
family my younger sister Franny was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-
free room I shared with my eldest brother Seymour. (S.) 
5. I hope, Cecily, 1 shall not offend you if I state quit frankly and openly that 
you seem to me to be in ever way the visible personification of absolute perfection 
(O.W.) 
6. Across my every path, at every turn, go where will, do what I may, he comes. 
(D.) 
7. … he assured me that they had some (asparagus so large, so splendid, so 
tender, that it was a wonder. (S. M.)