Проанализируйте примеры употребления гиперболы, преуменьшения и литоты с точки зрения их структуры, семантики и функции.
1. Calpurnia was all angles and bones; her hand was as wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. (Lee)
2. They were under a great shadowy train shed … with passenger cars all about and the train moving at a snail pace. (Dreiser)
3. Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old. (Fitzgerald)
4. Newspapers are the organs of individual men who have jockeyed themselves to be party leaders, in countries where a new party is born every hour over a glass of beer in the nearest cafe. (Reed)
