Look up: hyperbole

1. Hyperbole
   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 Mistre...
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2. Hyperbole
   Exaggeration for dramatic effect e.g. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe:
   'Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
   And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?'
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3. hyperbole
   [n] - extravagant exaggeration
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4. Hyperbole
   Hy·per'bo·le noun [ Latin , from Gr..., prop., an overshooting, excess, from Greek ... to throw over or beyond; 'ype`r over + ... to throw. See Hyper- , Parable , and confer Hyperbola .] (Rhet.) A figure of speec...
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5. hyperbole
   noun extravagant exaggeration
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6. Hyperbole
   • (n.) 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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7. hyperbole
   a figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect. Hyperbole is common in love poetry, in which it is used to ... [2 related articles]
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8. hyperbole
   hyperbole (high' pur AK tiv) 1. Exaggeration for effect; overstatement. 2. Not to be taken literally; a figure of speech, or a distortion of what is real. Examples: Thanks a million; Stubborn as a mule; Strong as an ox; Big as a whale. Related 'above, over, beyond the normal, ...
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9. hyperbole
   exaggeration beyond reasonable credence. An example is the close of John Donne's holy sonnet 'Death, thou shalt die!'
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10. hyperbole
    An idea is expressed in an exaggerated way, usually to create humour or to emphasise the idea. The reader will immediately feel that the writer´s words are not to be taken literally.
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11. hyperbole
    hyperbole (hīpûr'bulē) , a figure of speech in which exceptional exaggeration is deliberately used for emphasis rather than deception. Andrew Marvell employed hyperbole throughout To His Coy Mistress:An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; Two h...
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12. Hyperbole
    (Gr. hyperbole, over-shooting, excess) In rhetoric, that figure of speech according to which expressions gain their effect through exaggeration. The representation of things as greater or less than they really are, not intended to be accepted literally. Aristotle relates, for example, that when the ...
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13. Hyperbole
    A hyperbole is a rhetorical figure, in which an idea is expressed with a fanciful exaggeration of phrase which is not to be taken too literally, but only as representing a certain warmth of admiration or emphasis. 'His fame reaches to the stars' is an example of hyperbole.
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14. hyperbole
    Figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration or overstatement, used for emphasis or comic effect. Many everyday idioms are hyperbolic: `waiting for ages` and `a flood of tears`
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