Voorbeelden van hyperbole

• The first hyperbole is thus collapsed into a continuum labelled ' type of initial language structure ' (p. 43).

• But the best way to do that is surely not by uncritical hyperbole but by sympathetic and searching advocacy of the music.

• The book continues the tradition of polarization through hyperbole that threatens to run developmental psycholinguistics into the ground.

• It seems unable to communicate that an older person can have value and dignity without hyperbole.

• The book strives for balance in covering what has become contested territory, but at times a tendency towards hyperbole has the opposite effect.

• Such techniques as punning, oxymoron, and hyperbole are employed by ad-men to lure customers for their clients.

• To make a convincing case, some use hyperbole.

• The occasional tendency toward hyperbole is likely purposeful, attempting to sway a readership entrenched in the standard doctrine regarding hallucinations.

• As technological advances were linked through popular scientific articles and advertising hyperbole to "master voices," sound-recording technology took on important cultural meanings and duties.

• This hyperbole is collapsed into a continuum dealing with ' mechanism used for language learning ' (p. 43), running from domain-specific to domaingeneral.

• I can, in principle, see the value of hyperbole in certain rhetorical situations.

• Many of the examples involve irony, sarcasm, satire, understatement, or hyperbole, requiring the listener to figure out what the nonliteral intention of the speaker is.

• Your conjunctions and your hyperboles are all mixed up with your syntax, and your figures of speech only fall between 10 and 20.

• It is also this controversial assumption that enables us to understand figures of speech such as hyperbole or metaphors.

• Its style, of letting the information ' speak for itself ' without hyperbole or alarmist commentary, is admirable.