Writing under the name of 'Diedrich Knickerbocker', Washington Irving aimed his political satire, at as diverse topics as political rivals such as; Thomas Jefferson, to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately.

Explanation:

Punctuations are the marks, such as full stops, commas, colons, semi colons, hyphens, brackets, exclamation marks , question marks, Apostrophes etc, that are used to make a sentence more comprehensive and understandable.

Punctuations help bring out the meaning of the sentence clearly and fully to the readers.

Hyphens are used to join adjectives. Colons are used to connect two independent clauses. Full stops are used to show the sentence has come to an end.

Exclamation marks are used to denote the emotions of the person, while uttering the sentence.

So, punctuation marks are very important in writing a sentence without which a sentence does not have a clear meaning.

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Some of the ways a person can use exaggerations or hyperbole are:

I ate a mountain of chips this morning
He is as big as a house!
I am so hungry, I can eat an elephant

A person can be ignorant of a thing but still be loud and brazen when talking to cover for his incompetence and this shows that the person "blows hot air"

<h3>What is Exaggeration?</h3>

This refers to the use of words in an overstated manner to create a dramatic effect or to show the severity of a situation,..

Hence, we can see that based on the use of exaggeration, a person can make use of this to make a point and some examples are given above.

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