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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 |
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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. |
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Definition of Hyperbole
- a poetic device |
Examples of Hyperbole in Poems
& Poetry
Poems with Hyperbole
examples can be found by the most famous poets including
Sandburg, Shakespeare and Emerson.
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“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
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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
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"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
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"Here once
the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world" by Ralph Waldo
Emerson from "The Concord Hymn"
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"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.
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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. |
