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Literature-Hyperbole

Short Answer Questions.
Identify the hyperbole in each example. What is being exaggerated?
When you are done, please send them to Mrs. Dowling for grading!


1. He runs a mile in nothing flat.
He can run right out from under his hat.
---John Ciardi, "Speed Adjustments"

2. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry.
---Emily Dickenson, Letter to Col. Thomas Higginson

3. Write your own hyperbole on
1. loud
2. cold
3. late

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