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Hyperbole is a type of figurative language involving exaggeration. Which lines in this excerpt from Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress" are examples of hyperbole?


Had we but world enough and time,

This coyness, lady, were no crime.

We would sit down, and think which way

To walk, and pass our long love’s day.

Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side

Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide

Of Humber would complain. I would

Love you ten years before the flood,

And you should, if you please, refuse

Till the conversion of the Jews.

My vegetable love should grow

Vaster than empires and more slow;

[An hundred years should go to praise

Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;]

Two hundred to adore each breast,

But thirty thousand to the rest;

An age at least to every part,

And the last age should show your heart.

For, lady, you deserve this state,

Nor would I

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Explanation:

In some lines of the extract you can appreciate Hyperbole. They are:

"love you ten years before the flood." This is clearly an exaggeration since to make a declaration of love, the individual exaggerates in affirming that he has loved that person even before the universal flood occurred, an event millions of years ago.

In other lines where Hyperbole can be seen are: Two hundred to worship each breast, and " but thirty thousand to the rest"... to refer to the age you would need to worship your beloved. They are also exaggerations since a human being does not last that long.

Answer: "Of humber would complain. I would love you ten years before the flood" and "An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze"

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