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Yuchanahn Posted 8 years ago
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What is the difference between a hyperbole and a overstatement?

What is the difference between a hyperbole and a overstatement? I'm doing my poem homework and I got confused over there two poetic devices

  

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It's a matter of degree. Hyperbole is a more exaggerated overstatement. 'I've told you a million times' is hyperbole (not a hyperbole).

— Rover_KE

  • It's a matter of degree.
  • Hyperbole is a more exaggerated overstatement.
  • 'I've told you a million times' is hyperbole (not a hyperbole).
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It's a matter of degree.

Hyperbole is a more exaggerated overstatement.

'I've told you a million times' is hyperbole (not a hyperbole).

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