From comments in a recent post:
“There’s a difference between spanking and beating a child with a stick.”
Duhr.
“If you have to beat your children (or your dogs) with a stick to control them, then you aren’t parenting and you shouldn’t have a dog.”
Go back and read the post. Heck, go back and read the whole blog. Then, consider the following:
hy·per·bo·le [hahy-pur-buh-lee] –noun Rhetoric.
1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
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met·a·phor [met-uh-fawr, -fer] – noun
1. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”
2. something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol.
That is all.
