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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"hyperbole"”.
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Jesus’s use of hyperbole in the Gospel of Matthew
… have acknowledged that Jesus frequently uses hyperbole in his discourses. However, only a few people pay enough attention to studying this topic. On the one hand, C. Douglas and R. H. Stein have done some comprehensive studies on Jesus’s use of hyperbole, but their works now need improvement …
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The Other as Deconstructive Phenomenon: Understanding Levinas' Hyperbolic Descriptions in Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence
… addresses the problem of Emmanuel Levinas’ hyperbole in his work Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence. In this text, he claims to provide a phenomenological description of the encounter the Other, yet his descriptions are deliberately hyperbolic and therefore do not seem to actually be …
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
… to an examination of the rhetorical figure of hyperbole. It is argued that hyperbole offers unique insight into the ground of communication as all communicative acts are, in their ontological structure, hyperbolic. Moreover, this hyperbolic characterization of communication highlights the role …
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Hyperpedagogy: Intersections among poststructuralist hypertext theory, critical inquiry, and social justice pedagogies
… can participate in e-learning. Much of the hyperbole promoting e-learning is founded on social-efficiency pedagogies (i.e. preparing tomorrow's workers for the information-based, new global economy) that tend to homogenize culturally pluralistic learners. The premium placed on a strict …
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The use of figurative language in the 21st century american literature: the case of the novel “the lucky one” by nicholas sparks /
… such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, simile, hyperbole, and epithet. Understanding the prevalence and usage of lexical stylistic devices in modern American literature is crucial for comprehending the depth and richness of literary works. While previous studies have explored various aspects of …
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine
… metaphor, metonymy, simile, personification and hyperbole. |The figures checked were listed in the order in which they occur in each chapter. No attempt was made to group them according to their content. |The sentences In many instances are long, so phrases or clauses containing the rhetorical …
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VILIFYING OBAMACARE: CONSERVATIVE TROPES OF VICTIMAGE IN THE 2009 HEALTH CARE DEBATES
… care and to illuminate the escalation of the hyperbole intrinsic to their rhetoric. I begin with Sarah Palin's creation of the "death panel" trope, which opened the campaign against the Advance Care Planning Consultation provision of the proposed health reform bill. I next examine the campaign …
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The great American garage
… program are used in the form of metaphor and hyperbole to create differing typologies of the American home. The metaphors themselves have developed out of a very dense genealogy of American suburban histories and trajectories. They have a real history, just as they occupy a very real extant …
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Retorinės figūros TED kalbose verslo tema /
… devices are rhetorical question, anaphora, and hyperbole. Speeches with rhetorical devices were more interesting than those with fewer. This shows that the use of rhetorical devices is nearly necessary to properly convey the theme. Key words: Rhetoric, business language, rhetorical devices.
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A linguistic analysis of discursive strategies in the Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP) policy document
… selected five (emotive, imperative, metaphor, hyperbole and personification). Scholars have analysed this document rhetorically; however, no comprehensive analysis on linguistic devices has yet been carried out to study the document. This study was guided by two objectives, namely to analyse …
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Reimagining Subject-Other Relations: Embracing the other Without and Within
… 16). Whether through satire, parody, or hyperbole, these texts confront readers with the consequences of the internalization of and complicity with said fear and paranoia as responses to an unknown other, highlighting the need for more ethical subject-other relations. Through their …
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The imperfect librarians: myth and resistance in Marcel Proust, Johannes V. Jensen, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges
… of even deciphering a single letter.This hyperbole provides an apt prism through which to understand Modernist mythopoesis. My central aim is to produce a comparative theoretical assessment of Modernist mythmaking by using, as primary examples, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps …
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Regards sur l’Être et le Paraitre dans Trois Portraits du XVIIe Siècle
… also the art of knowing others. Everything is hyperbole: nobles are gods and goddesses-when they are not fairies-and life is a vast performance where self-image and representation are tirelessly adjusted because the observer is looking to catch what is behind the façade. At court or in Salons, …
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Die referensialiteit van literêre taalgebruik, meer spesifiek die implikasieverskynsels en die rol daarvan vir die interpretasie en evaluering van 'n literêre teks
… six the relationship of irony with regard to hyperbole, understatement (litotes), satire, sarcasm and parody is investigated. At the end of this chapter the connection between irony and metaphor is carried through. The last chapter, i.e. chapter seven, points to the literary evaluative …
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The Bride as Symbol: Mechthild von Magdeburg and the Logic of Mysticism
… tensions of her mysticism, her use of paradox, hyperbole, and metaphor, the dynamics propelling the soul from wretchedness into eminence, the wide-ranging connotations of her imagery, and the unifying dynamic essence of God and soul. Such enigmatic qualities typify the logic of symbols explored …
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Annihilation And Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures On Genocide And Capital
… a variety of literary strategies, especially hyperbole, to produce a crisis of history to indict the Cold War arms trade on equal terms with a war criminal. Similarly, Boubicar Boris Diop's novel <i>Murambi, The Book of Bones</i> helps contextualize the Rwandan genocide within the circuits of …
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Fashion, Art and the Early Modern Court, Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569 - 1622)
… last crowned queen of France comprises a visual hyperbole of Marie de’ Medici’s monarchic aspirations expressed through the agency of her coronation robes. A rediscovered and unedited manuscript held in the French national archives records the expenditures of the French court for the year 1610 …
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Charles Dickens: artist of the grotesque
… only partial explanations for Dickens’ use of hyperbole, caricature, melodrama and the macabre. With the vocabulary and the insights afforded by an understanding of the aesthetic of the grotesque, one can more fully define and appreciate Dickens’ achievement.</p> <p>Initially, I will establish …
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