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Hyperbole
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The Tortured Poets Department · 2024
“You and I go from one kiss to getting married”
Uncle Jerry explicitly identifies this as hyperbolic: the relationship accelerated impossibly fast — one kiss to marriage. The exaggeration conveys how quickly and recklessly the subject made promises.
Connects to the synecdoche of rings and cradles (D008) — both capture the subject's grandiose, unsustainable promises. The hyperbole underscores why the promises were always illusory.
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