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Hyperbole |
over exaggeration |
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pg. 8 Thousands of trees perfectly aligned like squares in a million square grid |
Hyperbole (over exaggeration) because there were not actually a million squares |
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pg. 11 You'll have to meet him. Spends half his life a the stock car races. |
Hyperbole (over exaggeration) because he did not stay half of the time he has been alive at the stock car races Translation - he spends a lot of time at the stock car races |
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pg. 17 You can actually see the wind here |
HYPERBOLE (OVER EXAGGERATION) because the wind is invisible and you can not actually see it Translation - the wind was blowing really hard |
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pg. 42 I have special prescription glasses, for sports. If the dinosaurs had worn these googles, and he Earth had been bombarded by mile high asteroid boulders, the dinosaurs would have till died, but the googles would still be intact. Nothing could break these googles. |
HYPERBOLE (OVER EXAGGERATION) because it states nothing could break his glasses translation - the glasses were made so well that that they were hard to destroy |