Question

Help Please!

Answer 1

What do you need help in?

Answer 2

"How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and woodlot!"

Answer 3

I need to explain why t's a metaphor and a hyperbole.

Answer 4

? but why is it a hyperbole?

Answer 5

Well a hyperbole is like an exaggeration like "She broke his heart into a million pieces" It's an exaggeration of how sad and heartbroken he is. Here the author is saying "How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load,creeping down the road of life" I feel like she's exaggerating the the issue. I'm not sure what exactly she's talking about but she is definitely adding exaggeration

Answer 6

Pushing a barn would that part be a hyperbole since well I can't push a barn?

Answer 7

Yeah that too. What is the topic though? I have a sense its about barn and farm life but idk anything else

Answer 8

It's abut Henry David Thoreau living in a house he constructed in the woods and as he compares civil life to his life.

Answer 9

How is it a hyperbole? Is it comparing

Answer 10

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