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Noun Concept
Categories: Rhetorical techniques, Articles with short description
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hyperbole  exaggeration  Hypeicane  hyperboles  hyperbolical
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Extravagant exaggeration WordNet 3.0
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Extravagant exaggeration WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. Wikipedia
Exaggeration as rhetorical device Wikidata
IS A
trope
rhetorical device
Rhetorical device
exaggeration
HAS INSTANCE
adynaton
DERIVATION
overstate
hyperbolic
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
DIFFERENT FROM
hyperbola
OPPOSITE OF
understatement
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
exaggeration
USES
exaggeration
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
hyperbole, exaggeration
Wikipedia
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hyperbole
Wikidata
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hyperbole
Wikipedia Redirections
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Hypeicane, hyperboles, hyperbolical, Hyperbolically
Wikidata Alias
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overstatement

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