Question

Read the first two stanzas of "Foreign Lands". Which excerpt contains hyperbole?

Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.
I saw the next-door garden lie,
Adorned with flowers, before my eye,
And many pleasant places more
That I had never seen before.

Answer 1

The line "And looked abroad on foreign lands." (or simply the phrase "foreign lands") is hyperbole. It's an exaggeration—climbing a cherry tree lets the child see the next‑door garden and nearby places, not true foreign countries—used to show the child's imagination.