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Hyperbole: exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect.

   *My vegetable love should grow
   Vaster than empires, and more slow;
   An hundred years should got to praise
   Thine eyes and on thine forehead gaze;
   Two hundred to adore each breast,
   But thirty thousand to the rest. Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"

   *Da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
   Dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
   Deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum. Catullus, to his.

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