[Hyperbole] is a Greek word literally meaning to throw beyond, and by extention, to take farther, or to go excessivly In theological terms it is language used in an extravagant or exaggerated way for effect, and not to be taken in the literal sense [back]
Figurative language that exaggerates It is often used in comedy, or to create irony Example: "We saw a gas station every five feet when the tank was full, but when we finally needed gas, there wasn't a station for a thousand miles "
If someone uses hyperbole, they say or write things that make something sound much more impressive than it really is. the hyperbole that portrays him as one of the greatest visionaries in the world. a way of describing something by saying it is much bigger, smaller, worse etc than it actually is = exaggeration (, from hyperballein )
/ exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect *My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow; An hundred years should got to praise Thine eyes and on thine forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" (A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples, Ross Scaife)
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A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis Many everyday expressions are examples of hyperbole: tons of money, waiting for ages, a flood of tears, etc Hyperbole is the opposite of litotes
A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect
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Figurative language that uses exaggeration for emphasis, like I'm starving when you haven't eaten in four hours, or I've been waiting forever when that's impossible because you probably were born at some point, and forever was happening a long time before you were born