Hyperbole
A hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
Hyperboles are not meant to be taken literally; it is a figure of speech!
Example: "An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze,
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;"
*Marvel speaks of a man telling his mistress his love and admiration for her. The narrator of the poem, who is nameless, speaks about how he would admire each part of her, if only they had enough time. The experpt above from the poem tells of the time he would spend but this is a hyperbole because he is exaggerating. The man does not literally mean that he would spend 30,500 years adoring her, he just uses the extreme number as an expression of his emotions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
Hyperboles are not meant to be taken literally; it is a figure of speech!
Example: "An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze,
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;"
*Marvel speaks of a man telling his mistress his love and admiration for her. The narrator of the poem, who is nameless, speaks about how he would admire each part of her, if only they had enough time. The experpt above from the poem tells of the time he would spend but this is a hyperbole because he is exaggerating. The man does not literally mean that he would spend 30,500 years adoring her, he just uses the extreme number as an expression of his emotions.