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[–] vorlaut_boy@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Someone was mean to me so i killed them - completely sane reaction.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aah yes. Because declining someone's mortgage application = literal murder.

/s

[–] vorlaut_boy@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

have you heard of stylistic devices? this one is called ~~exaggeration~~ hyperbole.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] vorlaut_boy@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[–] Penny7@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

From Merriam-Webster...

(Woops...hit meant to add)...saying exaggeration instead of hyperbole isn't wrong.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hyperbole is the rhetorical technique.

Exaggeration is just speaking like that.

From context it sounded like he was invoking the rhetorical meaning.

[–] Penny7@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some people just 'speak like that' using hyperbolic examples. So correcting them on using the word 'exaggeration' when they used a form of exaggeration is being the grammar police when nobody called for you. There's nothing wrong with using the word 'hyperbole', but there's nothing wrong with the word they used either.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

So correcting them on using the word ‘exaggeration’ when they used a form of exaggeration is being the grammar police when nobody called for you

have you heard of stylistic devices? this one is called exaggeration hyperbole.