[ US /haɪˈpɝbəˌɫi/ ]
[ UK /ha‍ɪpˈɜːbəlˌi/ ]
NOUN
  1. extravagant exaggeration
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How To Use hyperbole In A Sentence

  • But this exclamation is hyperbole; we are not speaking in literal seriousness.
  • Better law enforcement is the key, but we also need to cut the hyperbole surrounding olive oil. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cosmo writes, “Cosmo is absolutely correct, “Reaching for hyperbole and shrieking outrage at every turn doesn†™ t help your argument”.” Paranoia « BuzzMachine
  • There is, however, no cost implication where hyperbole is concerned in this business.
  • American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.
  • According to this interpretation, the phrase “the nature of the divine and the good” refers simply to a characteristic that is attributed to Pyrrho, and labeled by poetic hyperbole as ˜divine™, in another fragment of Timon, namely his extraordinary tranquillity; the couplet as a whole, then, is saying that tranquillity is the source of an even-tempered life. Picnic
  • This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc.
  • The instances are inconspicuous, but do make for a slight forcing of the effect towards hyperbole.
  • I found examples of other tropes and schemes - epanalepsis, asyndeton, polysyndeton, hyperbole, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, and anadiplosis - but perhaps my point is sufficiently made.
  • He should then appreciate the fine line between Churchillian rhetoric and hyperbole.
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