By Hyperboles

I found out/learned/discovered the news by reading the newspaper/by watching TV -- to me, these are not massively natural things to say, but are all OK I guess, provided that "the news" refers to a particular item of news. The sentence doesn't really work if "the news" is...

It's not extreme exaggeration that hyperbole suggests. Here's an example.An investigation committee is questioning why a project failed. In an attempt to save himself, the project manager starts to point fingers at a team which collaborated on the project. Team A refused to provide us...

I never heard of "word mending". The term that comes to mind is "hyperbole", but perhaps you're thinking of something else...

It's a somewhat vulgar expression. 'Crap' is a euphemism for sh*t; the entire construction is also hyperbole, as we don't really beat anything out of anyone.

Yes, you can use it as hyperbole, but that's a danger - once you exaggerate for effect, it can reduce the perception that you speak accurately in other ways. While "I've told you that a hundred million times" is clearly an exaggeration, "oil-dripping" can give a sense...

Agreed, but couldn't "oil-dripping" be used here as some kind of hyperbole to express my disgust with more conviction?

.Burns' poem is not free verse. It is full of truth. You cannot always tell a poem by its title. Robert Burns is a man. One poem does not an addiction make. Hyperbole can be found elsewhere besides the last verse.All of Whitman's poem is a literary device. No one is singing.

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It's a perfect example of the literary device known as 'hyperbole'.

a hyperbole is a big lie or an exaggeration