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Or should it?
Many linguists disagree: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/literally-centuries-of-non-literal-literally/
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Wouldn’t hyperbole be ‘I thought my head was going to explode’. The inclusion of ‘literally’ should be for the purpose of differentiating from hyperbole.