Review this passage from " a red, red rose." and i will luve thee still, my dear, 'til a ' the seas gang dry. which best analyzes the meaning of this use of hyperbole? a) the speaker is trying to communicate how much he loves the person he is writing about. b) the speaker thinks that the seas are going to dry up. c) the use of hyperbole has no meaning in this poem. d) the speaker is putting a time limit on how long he will care about his love.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .