2. Overstatement
overstatement (plural overstatements)
An exaggeration; a statement in excess of
what is reasonable.
The story he gave was something of an
overstatement of the facts.
The tendency to overstate.
She had a knack for overstatement.
3. Preface
The production has prepaced a report on
overstatement and understatement
for use as a subplementary leatning material. for
those who are interested in overstatement and
understatement to communicate.
Overstatement in song : Go and catch a falling
star(John Donne) and Understatement in Bells
for John White’s daughter. Production teams
hope the report is useful for learning.
4. • Go and Catch a Falling Star
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou be'st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear,
No where
Lives a woman true, and fair.
If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet;
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.
John Donne
5. Hyperbole ( hye-PER-buh-lee; "HYE-per-bowl" is a
mispronunciation) comes from Greek =exaggeration and is a figure of
speech in which statements are exaggerated. It may be used to evoke
strong feelings or to create a strong impression, and is not meant to
be taken literally.
Hyperbole is used to create emphasis. It is a literary device often
used in poetry, and is frequently encountered in casual speech.
Some examples include: these books weigh a ton. (weigh a great
deal) I could sleep for a year. (for a long time)
Antonyms to hyperbole include meiosis, litotes, understatement, and
bathos (the 'let down' after a hyperbole in a phrase).
Derived from the Greek (literally 'overshooting' or 'excess'), it is a
cognate of hyperbola.
6. I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze........
7. Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance........
8.
9. Overstatement in Go and catch a falling star,
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Or who cleft the devil's foot Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me, where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
10. Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou be’est born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear
No where
Lives a woman true, and fair.
If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
:-) do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet,
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
:-) she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.
11. Understatement
Understatement That is to say less
than the actual drawing.
The poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
content about destruction. But the
poet to speak less than the truth.
