Board Thread:Book Questions/@comment-75.119.244.74-20140505052459/@comment-5334520-20140505132153

Well the use of literality would be to actually be very literate about something. So like if I have been reading for two hours I'll say "I've literally been reading for two hours", a misuse of it and being exaggerate would be to say "I've literally been reading for like three centuries." She thinks that he means that he LITERALLY could NOT keep his eyes open so he had them shut the whole time.