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Hyperbole Defined
A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis. Many everyday expressions are examples of hyperbole: tons of money, waiting for ages, a flood of tears, etc. Hyperbole is the opposite of litotes.
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Fri Aug 29
- Timothy Garton Ash: Soon Obama must heed Canute | Comment is free | The Guardian: Look beyond tonight's Denver schmaltzfest and you see how the relative power of a US president is diminishing on all sides
Sun Aug 24
- Chinese set the new athletic standard: The problem with author is his low-intelligen ce and lacking of originality so that he has turns to rhetoric to give his words false sense of power.
Thu Aug 21
Sun Aug 17
- Sea Ice Hyperbole and Open Mind: Pretty good article about sea ice and the polar caps.
- College Teacher Shows Students How to Be Hackers | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com: George Ledin teaches students how to write viruses, and it makes computer-secur ity software firms sick.
Tue Aug 5
Mon Aug 4
- Welcome to Discovery Education Player: ... Travels, lit devices:Sherlo ck-foreshadowi ng, flashback, suspense, figurative language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, imagery:Rosa Parks, point of view: Poe,
Thu Jul 31
- Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization: From the comments: "I think there's an interesting observation buried here about how the hipster non-movement can be seen as a reaction to watching all of the 'authenti c' politically-ch arged counter-cultur e movements of the past burn out, get appropriated, and generally lose their promise as agents of social change. Instead, the author chooses to glorify the counter-cultur e movements of the past while making immature remarks about hipster 'fashion& #039; and assuming that this points to something deeper about the meaning of aesthetic reproduction.& quot;
Thu Jul 24
- SeanO'Hagan on classical music | Music | The Observer: This is completely barmy - the Master of the Queen's Music thinks that house music is somehowakin to a 'Huxleyan or Orwellian nightmare future'. Don't go over the top or anything.
Sun Jul 6
- The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans Social: Neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni discusses mirror neurons, autism and the potentially damaging effects of violent movies.
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