![]() Some grammar experts (and teachers) might ask you to decide on one definition: simile or hyperbole. That Brautigan's main goal is to exaggerate the volume of Mellon's smacking lips, and that he does so in the form of a comparison, which happens to include the word "like." This would mean that you consider the sentence to be hyperbole.This would mean that you consider the sentence to be a simile. That Brautigan's main goal is to vividly describe the sound of Mellon's smacking lips by drawing a fanciful comparison between lips and cymbals-the fact that this comparison amplifies the lip-smacking sound in an impossible way is secondary to his purpose.With this particular example, you could make two arguments. There is a simmering debate as to whether a figure of speech can be considered both hyperbole and simile simultaneously. No matter how bad Mellon's table manners were, it would be impossible for him to achieve the volume of a pair of cymbals clashing with his lips, so isn't this also a hyperbole? However, Brautigan's comparison also exaggerates the noise of Mellon's smacking lips by comparing it to the clash of cymbals. ![]()
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