Hyperbole
Related Category: Literature: General
(hīpûr´bəlē), a figure of speech in which exceptional exaggeration is deliberately used for emphasis rather than deception. Andrew Marvell employed hyperbole throughout
To His Coy Mistress:
An hundred years should go to praise&return;
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;&return;
Two hundred to adore each breast;&return;
But thirty thousand to the rest …
