12-22-2007, 03:04 AM
12-22-2007, 06:26 AM
I loved her so much
My heart exploded
My heart exploded
12-22-2007, 08:48 AM
Try Lewis Carrol's "The Walrous and the
Carpenter."
Carpenter."
12-22-2007, 10:26 AM
snagged this off a site, http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD.html
Hyperbole in Poetry. Hyperbole is common in humorous poetry. Hyperbole can make a point in a light-hearted way. It can be used to poke fun at someone or something. For example, read this description of a dull town."It's a slow burg?I spent a couple of weeks there one day."
?Carl Sandburg, "The People, Yes"
This poem uses hyperbole in a description of a young boy.
"Why does a boy who?s fast as a jet
Take all day?and sometimes two?
To get to school?"
?John Ciardi, "Speed Adjustments"
Hyperbole can emphasize a truth by exaggerating it.
"Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world."
?Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Concord Hymn
Hyperbole in Poetry. Hyperbole is common in humorous poetry. Hyperbole can make a point in a light-hearted way. It can be used to poke fun at someone or something. For example, read this description of a dull town."It's a slow burg?I spent a couple of weeks there one day."
?Carl Sandburg, "The People, Yes"
This poem uses hyperbole in a description of a young boy.
"Why does a boy who?s fast as a jet
Take all day?and sometimes two?
To get to school?"
?John Ciardi, "Speed Adjustments"
Hyperbole can emphasize a truth by exaggerating it.
"Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world."
?Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Concord Hymn