Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Hyperbole

Hyperbole is exaggeration.

Many poems are written to make you laugh. They use hyperbole, exaggeration, to entertain their audiences.


Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein


"The garbage reached across the state, 
From New York to the Golden Gate."

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