Hyperbole
We use hyperbole /haɪˈpɜ:bəlɪ/ to exaggerate. We sometimes do this to emphasise something, to add humour or to gain attention. When we use hyperbole, we often make statements which are obviously untrue: …

hyperbole | American Dictionary

hyperbole
noun[ U ]
us/hɑɪˈpɜr·bə·li/
a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound much bigger, better, smaller, worse, more unusual, etc., than they are:
Although he’s not given to hyperbole, Ron says we are light-years ahead of our time.
literature
Hyperbole is also the use of such language to express humor or great emotion.

Examples of hyperbole

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The first hyperbole is thus collapsed into a continuum labelled ' type of initial language structure ' (p. 43).
But the best way to do that is surely not by uncritical hyperbole but by sympathetic and searching advocacy of the music.
The book continues the tradition of polarization through hyperbole that threatens to run developmental psycholinguistics into the ground.
It seems unable to communicate that an older person can have value and dignity without hyperbole.
The book strives for balance in covering what has become contested territory, but at times a tendency towards hyperbole has the opposite effect.
Such techniques as punning, oxymoron, and hyperbole are employed by ad-men to lure customers for their clients.
To make a convincing case, some use hyperbole.
The occasional tendency toward hyperbole is likely purposeful, attempting to sway a readership entrenched in the standard doctrine regarding hallucinations.
As technological advances were linked through popular scientific articles and advertising hyperbole to "master voices," sound-recording technology took on important cultural meanings and duties.
This hyperbole is collapsed into a continuum dealing with ' mechanism used for language learning ' (p. 43), running from domain-specific to domaingeneral.
I can, in principle, see the value of hyperbole in certain rhetorical situations.
Many of the examples involve irony, sarcasm, satire, understatement, or hyperbole, requiring the listener to figure out what the nonliteral intention of the speaker is.
Your conjunctions and your hyperboles are all mixed up with your syntax, and your figures of speech only fall between 10 and 20.
It is also this controversial assumption that enables us to understand figures of speech such as hyperbole or metaphors.
Its style, of letting the information ' speak for itself ' without hyperbole or alarmist commentary, is admirable.
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