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Hyperbole

The document discusses the literary device of hyperbole. Hyperbole involves exaggerating to make something seem better, more exciting, or more dangerous than it really is. An example is saying "I'm hungry enough to eat a horse" when one is exaggerating how hungry they feel for emphasis. While hyperbole is used to stress a point, what is being exaggerated is not meant to be taken literally.

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Hyperbole

The document discusses the literary device of hyperbole. Hyperbole involves exaggerating to make something seem better, more exciting, or more dangerous than it really is. An example is saying "I'm hungry enough to eat a horse" when one is exaggerating how hungry they feel for emphasis. While hyperbole is used to stress a point, what is being exaggerated is not meant to be taken literally.

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Hyperbole

It is a way of speaking or writing that makes


something sound better, more exciting,
dangerous, etc. than .it really is
Hyperbole

Think Ahead…

If you say “I am hungry enough to eat a


.”horse
Hyperbole

It is certainly Hyperbole.

You do not really men that you would eat a


horse. You are exaggerating to stress the idea
.that you are very hungry
Reflection on Hyperbole in

The Luckiest Time of All

Elzie uses hyperbole to describe Amos Pickens on


.the day she met him
:Look at this example

Right behind me was the dancing dog and right“


behind me was the finest fast running hero
.”in . . . Virginia
Hyperbole
Amos may be fast, and he may even be
a hero, but probably is not the “the
finest fast running hero” in all of
.Virginia
Elzie simply exaggerates to make her
.point. She thinks Amos is wonderful
I’m Nobody
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson celebrates privacy and one’s


.right to be different

In this poem, Who is compared to whom?


?What word signals that

What does the “analogy” say about


?somebody
ME
Walter de la Mere

.The speaker compares himself to trees and flowers

The speaker celebrates the shared characteristics between


.himself and trees and flowers
,The speaker wants all the time to be himself

.and nobody else

Trees and flowers live happily because they are themselves.


.It is because of being Independent

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