Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Hyperbole



Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which a self-assured, confident, perhaps daring, intentional and striking or dramatic exaggeration is used,  to make something seem better and larger than it is in reality.  It is not meant literally at all.

Examples are,

I've been waiting here for ages.
You're so short you have to look up to tie your shoes.
I bent over and took hold of the room with both my hands and spun it.




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