Ex: The prologue in Romeo and Juliet.
Chorus1
Two households, both alike in dignity,2
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,3
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,4
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.5
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes6
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;7
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows8
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.9
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,10
And the continuance of their parents' rage,11
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,12
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;13
The which if you with patient ears attend,14
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Overstatement- an exaggerated statement or account.
Ex: "I literally died." "I'd give my right arm for a piece of pizza."
You might have a sonnet on the AP test. Could you pick out other examples.
ReplyDeleteOverstatement is a form of verbal irony.