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Originally Posted by Howard Klepper
It's hyperbole.
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Indeed it is.
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...hyperbole is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated to create an impact and are not supposed to be interpreted literally... although valued in creative writing, hyperboles are avoided in formal writing or business writing.
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/examp...yperboles.html
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I find it irksome when folks use "creative writing" as a means to technically distinguish what they do from what others do. To paraphrase, "He would have had me at "curved"." In this context, the term parabolic is "creative writing" intended to obfuscate and, perhaps, con.
It's a parabolic hyperbole, not to be confused with hyperbolic parabola.
