hyperbole in English

noun
1
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Behind every food scare, there is a barrage of claims and counter-claims, hyperbole and damage limitation.

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1. Vivid Hyperbole

2. American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.

3. This astonishing performance produced a gush of hyperbole.

4. 1 He's not usually given to hyperbole.

5. This is the metaphor gone beyond hyperbole into simile.

6. So the hyperbole is not actually surprising.

7. 2 American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.

8. 6 Some cynics might dismiss such statements as cosmic hyperbole.

9. 18 The phrase is of course a hyperbole.

10. 16 But the hyperbole is fast becoming reality.

11. 15 Throughout his ministry, Jesus often used hyperbole.

12. 4 This astonishing performance produced a gush of hyperbole.

13. With hyperbole, Jesus created mental pictures that were hard to forget.

14. 17 Instead, recruitment is often an orgy of hyperbole.

15. They're not shy of hyperbole as you can see.

16. Some cynics might dismiss such statements as cosmic hyperbole.

17. 5 This is the metaphor gone beyond hyperbole into simile.

18. So some of you may be thinking, "Gosh, that's hyperbole.

19. What are some lessons that Jesus taught by using hyperbole?

20. 19 Mr Murdoch was unwise to indulge in adolescent hyperbole.

21. Prochazka loved to regale his friends with hyperbole and excess.

22. • What is hyperbole, and how did Jesus use this teaching method?

23. Inanimate metaphor, were the least hyperbole were the Abstractionistic metaphor, and

24. (Matthew 23:24) This was a particularly powerful use of hyperbole.

25. 30 That seemed a sober judgment not even verging on hyperbole.

26. 20 The film is being promoted with all the usual hyperbole.

27. The unfinished and unpublished memoirs of Farini are replete with such hyperbole.

28. You get upset in the most florid ways, the most extreme hyperbole.

29. 14 Already the hyperbole was out of all proportion compared to the evidence.

30. 8 Buried somewhere in all that hyperbole is a good deal of truth.

31. When someone says we got people everywhere, you expect it to be hyperbole.

32. Hyperbole is exaggeration, which must be used discreetly or it could be misunderstood.

33. 24 You get upset in the most florid ways, the most extreme hyperbole.

34. 23 The unfinished and unpublished memoirs of Farini are replete with such hyperbole.

35. 12 In his ministry, Jesus often made use of another effective teaching method —hyperbole.

36. 3 It was not hyperbole to call it the worst storm in twenty years.

37. Hyperbole is a way of life in the culinary world, much to its detriment.

38. “A hundred Agonies in black-and-white” – Here, a hyperbole is used to shock us

39. 7 Twenty-four hours until kick-off and the hyperbole was drifting out of control.

40. 15 It is only slight hyperbole to say that Roy Disney averted a cultural tragedy.

41. 9 Hyperbole is a way of life in the culinary world, much to its detriment.

42. Hyperbole is a very common rhetorical device which is widely used both in English and Chinese.

43. It proves that hyperbole can create new image beauty, affection beauty, noble beauty and comedic effects.

44. How might you make discreet use of hyperbole in your teaching? —Matthew 7:3; 19:24.

45. 28 Rick Perry, the Texas commissioner of agriculture, is a rancher with an aversion to hyperbole.

46. (b) How did Jesus use hyperbole to stress the foolishness of criticizing minor faults of our brothers?

47. Why were Jesus’ words about straining out the gnat and gulping down the camel particularly powerful hyperbole?

48. A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) Familiarity information: Bazillion used as a noun is very rare.

49. 29 While Brown touted initiatives created in his tenure, some of the speech was laced with hyperbole.

50. 21 The blurb on the back of the book was full of the usual hyperbole - 'enthralling', 'fascinating' and so on.