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hyperbole

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hy·per·bo·le  (h-pûrb-l)
n.
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

[Latin hyperbol, from Greek huperbol, excess, from huperballein, to exceed : huper, beyond; see hyper- + ballein, to throw; see gwel- in Indo-European roots.]

hyperbole [haɪˈpɜːbəlɪ]
n
(Literature / Rhetoric) a deliberate exaggeration used for effect he embraced her a thousand times
[from Greek: from hyper- + bolē a throw, from ballein to throw]
hyperbolism  n

hyperbole
1. an obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “She’s as big as a house.” Cf. litotes. — hyperbolic, adj.
See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hyperbolehyperbole - extravagant exaggeration            
figure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

hyperbole
noun exaggeration, hype (informal), overstatement, enlargement, magnification, amplification The debate was carried on with increasing rhetorical hyperbole.
Translations
hyperbole [haɪˈpɜːbəlɪ] Nhipérbole f
hyperbole [haɪˈpɜːrbəli] nhyperbole f
hyperbole
n (Liter) → Hyperbel f
hyperbole [haɪˈpɜːbəlɪ] niperbole f
hyperbole [haɪˈpɜːbəlɪ] niperbole f


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It is a strange thing, to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature, and value of things, by this; that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole, is comely in nothing but in love.
We ought not, therefore, to condemn the maid of the inn for her hyperbole, who, when she descended, after having lighted the fire, declared, and ratified it with an oath, that if ever there was an angel upon earth, she was now above-stairs.
and these things being its "chief" delights-and then the pre-eminent beauty and naturalness of the concluding lines, whose very hyperbole only renders them more true to nature when we consider the innocence, the artlessness, the enthusiasm, the passionate girl, and more passionate admiration of the bereaved child--
 
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