The used rhetorical device is Hyperbole.
Saying that something is a billion times better is hyperbole because it is not really that much better, you would just be over exaggerating.
Confucianism was a par of the everyday life in the Qing dynasty because the rulers adopted it as the state religion and venerated Confucius as the greatest saint in history of China. Even though the Qing dynasty ruled for 300 years, towards the end of their rule at the beginning of the 20th century, Confucianism was abandoned.
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At the end of World War II the Allies Powers sent a message to the Japanese demanding surrender. The Japanese responded with the word mokusatsu, which translates as either "to ignore" or "to withhold comment". The Japanese meant that they wished to withhold comment, to discuss and then decide. The Allies translated mokusatsu as the Japanese deciding to ignore the demand for surrender. The Allies therefore ended the war by dropping the bomb and transforming the world we live in forever.
The effect that words can have is incredible: to inform, persuade, hurt or ease pain, end war or start one, kill thousands or even millions of people. They can get your point across, or destroy any hope of your ideas ever being understood. A major element of advertising is the words, which ones and in what order. The following is a discussion of words and how to use them to the greatest effect in advertising.
He shows the baby pictures of lise to the german soldiers
