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06:11, 17 марта 2013

Understatement. Hyperbole. Oxymoron. Epithet.

Understatement is a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. As such, understatement can be used to reflect modesty, sarcasm, derogatory or complimentary tone.

For example: "He is a little on the old side" - describing a very old person.Blog post image

The opposite of understatement is hyperbole.  A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration. These statements are not literally true, but people make them to sound impressive or to emphasize something.

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For example: I nearly died laughing.  I tried a thousand times.

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Epithet (Greek - "addition") is a stylistic device emphasizing some quality of a person, thing, idea or phenomenon. Its function is to reveal the evaluating subjective attitude of the writer towards the thing described.

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For example: It was opened by a small barrel of a woman, her fat arms shiny with suds.

He was a bald, vast-bearded man with a distinctly saturnine cast to his face; a Jeremiah.

An oxymoron (plural oxymora or oxymorons) (from Greek "sharp dull") is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms. Oxymora appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors such as ground pilot and literary oxymorons crafted to reveal a paradox.

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For example: Bitter sweet, dark light, mad wisdom etc.

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http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/understateterm.htm

https://sites.google.com/site/afigurativelanguagewebquest/task/day-8--hyperbole

http://estylistics.blogspot.com/2012/05/epithet-as-stylistic-device.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron

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