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title: "Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole,Understatement (Week 10)"
description: "According to I.R Galperin, periphrasis, euphemism, hyperbole,understatement refers to lexical SD and..."
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# Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole,Understatement (Week 10)

> According to I.R Galperin, periphrasis, euphemism, hyperbole,understatement refers to lexical SD and...

According to **I.R Galperin**, periphrasis, euphemism, hyperbole,understatement refers to lexical SD and EMs based on the interaction of logical and nominative meanigs.But **V.A. Kuharenko** refered hyperbole and understatement to lexical SDs and periphrasis to lexico-syntactic SDs. Talking about **Skrebnev`s** classification, we can see that hyperbole and understatement are in the group of paradigmatic semasiology unit (figures of quantity).**Kuharenco and Skrebnev** do not belong euphemism and periphrasis anywhere. So,

**hyperbole** came to us from Greek and it means *"overshooting"*- a deliberate exaggeration of an object feature to such a degree that will show its utter absurdity.

*"I'd catch a grenade for ya.* *Throw my hand on the blade for ya.* *I'd jump in front of a train for ya." (Bruno Mars, song "Grenade")*

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![Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole,Understatement (Week 10)](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/sonya_charming_eyes/xmE19vZ2R5s9HJe155kgTw4pQSPkfT.jpg)

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**understatement or meiosis** - the exaggeration of smallness.

*" She was so thin she could have hidden behind a parking meter."*

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![Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole,Understatement (Week 10)](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/sonya_charming_eyes/3OXa00403704Ql65Wwmr82uOYVQUs7.jpg)

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**periphrasis** from Greek is *"speaking around"* - the use of a more or less complicated syntactycal structure instead of one word to convey a purely individual perception of the described object.

*"My better half( my wife), the cap and the gown(a student)."*

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![Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole,Understatement (Week 10)](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/sonya_charming_eyes/nYf30It15f8g1ZjwwOThxkzocjTUhx.jpg)

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**euphemism** from Greek is *"speaking well"* - "whitewashing device" - a word/phrase used to replace an unpleasant or tabooed word/phrase by a conventionally more acceptable, mild, or less straightforward one.

" A woman of a certain type, night butterfly(in Russian) - a prostitute."

![Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole,Understatement (Week 10)](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/sonya_charming_eyes/yrTB2gN3M3l0xDu1pw65MIdh2w396k.jpg)

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