Prof Ashurova D. U., associate professor Normurodova N. Z. Course of lectures


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Hyperbole 
Hyperbole is a stylistic device which is also based on the interaction of logical 
and emotive meaning, it gives a deliberate exaggeration: 
million - coloured rainbow (Shelley) 
Actually, there are seven colours in the spectrum, Shelley’s hyperbole emphasises 
the beauty of that rainbow. 
So hyperbole is a statement fancifully exaggerated through excitement or for a 
effect. By such overstatement something is represented as much greater or less, better or 
worse: 
When people say «I’ve told you fifty times
They mean to scold and very often do (Byron) 
Hyperbole can be trite and genuine: 
I beg you a thousand pardons; to be scared to death; to be tickled to death. 
“Dombey and Son” by Dickens conveys the idea of Mr. Dombey’s life with the 
help of hyperboles: 
The earth was made for Dombey to trade in and the sun and the 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 co-respond to reality but 
both the writer and the reader are fully aware of this fact. 
The main stylistic function of hyperbole is to express emotions. In hyperbole the 
emotive meaning usually dominates over the logical one. 
I would give worlds to see you I would give the world to find you a pin. 
Hyperbole is widely used in the oral type of speech. The speaker uses hyperbole to 
make his speech vivid and convincing: 
I had to drag it out of him It seems ages since we had a real talk. 


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Study Questions
1. What lexical meaning is instrumental in the formation of epithet? 
2. What semantic types of epithet do you know? 
3. What structural types of epithet do you know? 
4. What is irony, what lexical meaning is employed in its formation? 
5. What is the length of the context needed for the realisation of irony? 
6. What are the most frequently observed mechanisms of irony formation? 
7. What is an oxymoron and what meanings are foregrounded in its formation? 
8. What are the structural patterns of oxymoron? 
9. What are trite oxymoron’s and where are they mainly used? 
10. What meaning is foregrounded in a hyperbole? 
11. What make a hyperbole trite and where are trite hyperbolas predominantly used? 

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