英语基础写作13.pptVIP

Hyperbole 夸张 1. What is hyperbole? 2. What is its difference from the plain language? Examples: 1.Thank you very much. Thanks a million. 2. She is very pretty. She is the prettiest girl in the world. 3. He laughed heartily. He almost died laughing. Q: When and why do we use hyperbole rather than the plain language? Hyperbole is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis. In the choice of words or sentence structures: some large numbers, the superlative (最高级), or words indicating an extreme are used in hyperbole. To intensify one’s emotions. To int