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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
Key Examples in Sing, Unburied, Sing
Chapter 9: Richie
Explanation and Analysis—When I Was Thirteen:
Richie compares his own suffering at 13 to what he knows about Jojo, chewing over how sharp the divide is between their experiences of childhood. Ward uses simile, metaphor, and hyperbole in Richie’s musings about the past to express the lasting pain of everything he endured at a young age:
When I was thirteen, I knew much more than him. I knew that metal shackles could grow into the skin. I knew that leather could split flesh like butter. I knew that hunger could hurt, could scoop me hollow as a gourd, and that seeing my siblings starving could hollow out a different part of me, too. Could make my heart ricochet through my chest desperately.
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