Friday, September 19, 2008

HYPERBOLE

an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech

/extravagant exaggeration

"He had the problem of always using hyperbole in his conversation which really started to annoy his fact-based analytic girlfriend."

"She pointed out that all of his hyperbole's dealing with number had 8's in them."

"It was these sort of hyperbole's that he used to ever-so-slightly manipulate his audience."

No comments: