Hyperbole

Examples Help! What is the definition of Hyperbole?

How do you define Hyperbole? What is Hyperbole? The word derives the Latin 'hyperbole' meaning 'excess'. Plural: Hyperboles. The definition of Hyperbole is as follows:

 

English Grammar & Terminology Definition of Hyperbole - a poetic device
Definition: Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated or extravagant. Hyperbole is a type of figurative language that depends on intentional overstatement.
Definition of Hyperbole - a poetic device

Figure of Speech Examples

Examples of Hyperbole in Poems & Poetry
Poems with Hyperbole examples can be found by the most famous poets including Sandburg, Shakespeare and Emerson.

  • “There did not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait a fishhook with.” by Mark Twain from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

  • An hundred years should go to praise
    Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
    Two hundred to adore each breast;
    But thirty thousand to the rest...
    from To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

  • "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
    Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather
    The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
    Making the green one red." from Act 2, scene 2 of "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare

  • "Here once the embattled farmers stood
    And fired the shot heard round the world" by Ralph Waldo Emerson from "The Concord Hymn"

  • "Go and Catch a Falling Star" by John Donne

Examples from Hyperbole Poems

Examples Help! Use of Hyperbole in Poems & Poetry
Examples of Hyperbole can be found in many examples of the poem, poems or poetry. Famous poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to literary works.

 

Examples Help - Figures of Speech - Hyperbole

In Figurative Language we use words in such a way that they differ somewhat from ordinary every-day speech and convey meanings in a more vivid and impressive manner. Figures, like Hyperbole make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing effectively. Figures of speech such as Hyperbole use word association to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense.

Examples Help! Using Hyperbole

Figures of speech such as Hyperbole adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration, exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and luxuriance to the English language. This page providing facts and info about Figures of Speech will help with the understanding of this subject.

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Hyperbole

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