Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0319 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Lexicon: Hyperbole
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The idea
The glossary calls hyperbole a metaphor built on exaggeration, quoting a promise to walk a million miles for one smile. Overstatement can be comic, passionate or contemptuous depending on what is exaggerated, so hyperbole names a technique rather than settling an attitude by itself.
In practice
Exaggeration names a method.
Where people slip
Hyperbole alone fixes no attitude.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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