• madcaesar
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    11 months ago

    Hyperbole is a literary device used to draw emphasis through extreme exaggeration. Hyperbole is not meant to be taken literally, but rather understood as a means of communicating something specific. Those who hear or read the hyperbole should understand that it is an exaggeration.

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      11 months ago

      not meant to be taken literally

      But the kid said ‘literally’, so there’s that. And a lot of spelling errors, so charity was forfeit.

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      Well this isn’t literature. I read every day that people take for granted that Google is now “unusable”. It isn’t. It’s a free service that’s gotten a little worse. End of story.