Hyperbole and Understatement 1

The rain pours, pours endlessly.

She gave birth to me, raised me and provided for me from an infant... Maybe I owe her one.

It wasn't too neighborly when he poisoned my poodle.

He was tired of life and too tired to die.

Jeb figured that wrestling the grizzly bear would be a tad bit risky, so he went back the way he came.

When I die shatter the sky with trumpets above my grave.

There came a summer day that was entirely for me.

My dog is big, so big indeed, when he drinks what he needs, the rivers of the Earth recede.

The elderly woman who was thrown from the train was having a rough morning.

Some folks might turn their noses up at old Buck, on account of all of those murders that he committed, but he's good people when it comes down to it.

A billion balloons congratulating the graduates graduating, "We're glad you made it."

My teacher assigned a thick homework packet, two book reports, and a 10-page research project, so I guess that I'm going to be a little busy this weekend.

The next closest star to the Earth is a mere 4.22 light-years away.

Cool, quiet, green stars. I will tear them out of the sky and squeeze them over an old silver cup for you.

Kidnapping the bride at her wedding was a slight of breach of decorum.

Her heart shook her body with its beats.

As the large pack of snarling wolves advanced, Dakota John smirked at his partner Steve and said, "Aw, you're not afraid of a few puppies are you, Steve?"

Let's just say that our son was not pleased to find his new Gamebox 4000 at the bottom of the swimming pool.

Our ears are dead. We cannot catch the tune.

The old man endlessly drank the foaming ale.