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Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration in making something seem greater, better or larger than it might actually be. It puts emphasis on words and phrases to create a rhetorical effect on the reader. In Andrew Marvell’s “To Coy his Mistress” he uses hyperbole to exaggerate and emphasize his statements to make a more effective poem. Hyperbole makes it seem almost unreal to the reader however still conveys the idea of the subject being compared or thought as some