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Re: Hyperbole, what is it?
Just a small technicality:
Hyperbole and Idiom are not the same thing. Hyperbole is the exaggeration of something for effect. An idiom is a statement that does not mean what a person would expect it to mean, based on it's word "constituents."
Examples:
Hyperbole
It's going to take a 50 years to get through this line!
I ate the whole cow.
He's 900 years old.
I told you a million times: Don't exaggerate!
Idioms (from Dave's ESL Cafe)
Let's bury the hatchet.
Why don't you call it a day?
I can't make heads or tails of your handwriting.
It's raining cats and dogs!
He really rubs me the wrong way.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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