story" he exclaims "What a sad story!"

Exclamation may be defined as the vocal expression of feeling, though it
is also applied to written forms which are intended to express emotion.
Thus in describing a towering mountain we can write "Heavens, what a
piece of Nature's handiwork! how majestic! how sublime! how awe-inspiring
in its colossal impressiveness!" This figure rather belongs to poetry and
animated oratory than to the cold prose of every-day conversation and
writing.

_Hyperbole_ (from the Greek _hyper_, beyond, and _ballein_, to throw), is
an exaggerated form of statement and simply consists in representing
things to be either greater or less, better or worse than they really
are. Its object is to make the thought more effective by overstating it.
Here are some examples:--"He was so tall his head touched the clouds."
"He was as thin as a poker." "He was so light that a breath might have
blown him away." Most people are liable to overwork this figure. We are
all more or less given to exaggeration and some of us do not stop there,
but proceed onward to falsehood and downright lying. There should be a
limit to hyperbole, and in ordinary speech and writing it should be well
qualified and kept within reasonable bounds.

An _Apostrophe_ (from the Greek _apo_, from, and _strephein_, to turn),
is a direct address to the absent as present, to the inanimate as living,
or to the abstract as personal. Thus: "O, illustrious Washington! Father
of our Country! Could you visit us now!"

"My Country tis of thee--
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing."