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Approved hyperboles are also metaphors. For
instance, one may say of a man whose eye is all black and blue, “you
would have thought he was a basket of mulberries,” because the black
eye is something purple, but the great quantity constitutes the hyperbole.
Again, when one says “like this or that” there is a
hyperbole differing only in the wording: “
Like Philammon punching the leather sack,
” or, “you would have thought that he was Philammon fighting
the sack”; “
Carrying his legs twisted like parsley,
” or, “you would have thought that he had no legs, but parsley,
they being so twisted.” There is something youthful about hyperboles;
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Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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