Nonliteral Meaning - Assignment 12 James Madison University

Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

Note: This assignment is focused entirely on the consideration of both what you can/do understand from the "Hyperbolic Language and its Relation to Metaphor and Irony" reading and what specific questions you have about that reading!)

1. What do the authors say (on page 80) is "arguably the defining feature of a hyperbolic utterance?"
2. What are the three examples of different possible SCALES for hyperbole mentioned on page 81, and what other "striking feature" of hyperbole do they mention on that same page?
3. What is one of the key distinctions they describe between hyperbole and irony?
4. What are two points of at least vague similarity, according to these authors, between irony and hyperbole (see pages 85-86)?
5. What, according to this article, do "Relevance" theorists claim is the similarity between metaphor and hyperbole?
6. Instead of agreeing with relevance theorists like Wilson and Sperber that utterances like Susan is an angel are examples of how it is hard to distinguish between hyperbole and metaphor, what do the authors of this article argue instead (bottom of pg 87 to page 88)?
7. What do the authors say, on page 90, is their main claim about how hyperbole works?
8. Write down two specific questions you have about this article, referring to page numbers if possible.