hyperbole
noun Rhetoric.
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hype, metaphor, overstatement, embellishment, coloring, distortion, enlargement, magnification, amplification, PRExamples from the Web for hyperbole
Contemporary Examples of hyperbole
Exaggeration and hyperbole are constant campaign companions, as useful and expected as hammers and saws on a construction site.
Pardon the hyperbole, but there has never been a more aptly titled Good Wife episode than “Hitting the Fan.”
In The Good Wife’s Explosive ‘Hitting the Fan,’ That’s Exactly What HappensChancellor Agard
October 28, 2013
Film festival reviews are, as is their wont, often prone to hyperbole.
The Stars of ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ On the Riveting Lesbian Love StoryMarlow Stern
September 1, 2013
Finke, who regularly breaks showbiz news, is the master of hyperbole.
So ignore the hyperbole of the candidates and the hysteria of the partisan commentators.
Historical Examples of hyperbole
We have here an example of this adventurer's style of exaggeration and hyperbole.
Aztec LandMaturin M. Ballou
Hyperbole means by definition that which is untrue and incredible.
Epic and RomanceW. P. Ker
I understand now the Western hyperbole of “hitting the high places.”
The Mutiny of the ElsinoreJack London
The figure of a quiet slumber is no hyperbole, but a sober verity.
Memories of BethanyJohn Ross Macduff
The hyperbole is their principal forte, but what is lying but imagination?
Diary in America, Series TwoFrederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)