单词	hyperbole
释义	hyperbolehy‧per‧bo‧le /haɪˈpɜːbəli $ -ɜːr-/ noun [countable, uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINhyperbole Origin: 1400-1500 Latin, Greek, ‘too much of something, hyperbole’, from hyperballein ‘to go beyond limits’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Rick said, with a touch of hyperbole, that it was the best movie he'd ever seen. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Buried somewhere in all that hyperbole is a good deal of truth. It is only slight hyperbole to say that Roy Disney averted a cultural tragedy. One might forgive the hyperbole in a politician but it is less easy to take from academic or journalistic critics. Rick Perry, the Texas commissioner of agriculture, is a rancher with an aversion to hyperbole. She appropriated slapstick and hyperbole to the delicious purpose of lampooning the fathead who made her life miserable. Some cynics might dismiss such statements as cosmic hyperbole. Twenty-four hours until kick-off and the hyperbole was drifting out of control. Thesaurus THESAURUStechniques used in language► metaphor a way of describing something by referring to it as something different and suggesting that it has similar qualities to that thing: · The beehive is a metaphor for human society. ► simile an expression that describes something by comparing it with something else, using the words as or like, for example ‘as white as snow’: · The poet uses the simile ‘soft like clay’. ► irony the use of words that are the opposite of what you really mean, often in order to be amusing: · ‘I’m so happy to hear that,’ he said, with more than a trace of irony in his voice. ► bathos a sudden change from a subject that is beautiful, moral, or serious to something that is ordinary, silly, or not important: · The play is too sentimental and full of bathos. ► hyperbole a way of describing something by saying that it is much bigger, smaller, worse etc than it actually is – used especially to excite people’s feelings: · In his speeches, he used a lot of hyperbole.· journalistic hyperbole ► alliteration the use of several words together that all begin with the same sound, in order to make a special effect, especially in poetry: · the alliteration of the ‘s’ sound in ‘sweet birds sang softly’ ► imagery the use of words to describe ideas or actions in a way that makes the reader connect the ideas with pictures in their mind: · the use of water imagery in Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’· She uses the imagery of a bird’s song to represent eternal hope. ► rhetorical question a question that you ask as a way of making a statement, without expecting an answer: · When he said ‘how can these attitudes still exist in a civilized society?’, he was asking a rhetorical question. 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