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A good librarian is not so different from a prospector, her whole brain is a divining rod. Is this sentence a hyperbole or a understatement?

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Hyperbole. It's unlikely her whole brain is a divining rod. It's overstatement this is not likely to be taken literally, which is the definition of a hyperbole.

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