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Definition of Hyperbole
Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker exaggerates for the sake of emphasis. Hyperbolic statements are usually quite obvious exaggerations intended to emphasize a point... read full definition
Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker exaggerates for the sake of emphasis. Hyperbolic statements are usually quite obvious exaggerations... read full definition
Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker exaggerates for the sake of emphasis. Hyperbolic statements... read full definition
Part I
Explanation and Analysis—Sylvia’s Love of Nature:
When introducing readers to the character of Sylvia, the narrator uses two hyperboles, as seen in the following passage:
There never was such a child for straying about out-of-doors since the world was made! It was a good change for a little maid who had tried to grow for eight years in a crowded manufacturing town […] it seemed as if she never had been alive at all before she came to live at the farm.
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