hyperbole

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  1. hyperbola

  1. Substantiivi

  2. hyperbola

hyperbole englanniksi

  1. Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, ''particularly'' extreme overstatement.

  2. (RQ:Langley Rhetoric)

  3. {{quote-text|en|year=1837|author=Nathaniel Hawthorne|title=s:Legends of the Province House

  4. (RQ:Cooper Deerslayer)

  5. ''c.'' 1910, Roosevelt|Theodore Roosevelt, ''Scholarship|Productive Scholarship''

  6. Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole, for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond.
  7. {{quote-text|en|year=1987|author=Donald Trump; Tony Schwartz|title=TrumpTrump: The Art of the Deal (1987)|The Art of the Deal|page=58

  8. (quote-book)

  9. {{quote-text|en|year=2001|author=Tom Bentley; Daniel Stedman Jones|title=The Moral Universe

  10. An instance or example of such overstatement.

  11. (RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida)and when he ſpeakes, / 'Tis like a Chime a mending. With tearmes vnſquar' / Which from the tongue of roaring ''Typhon'' dropt, / Would ſeemes Hyperboles

  12. {{quote-text|en|year=1843|author=Thomas Babington Macaulay|title=s:The Gates of Somnauth

  13. A hyperbola.

  14. hyperbole

  15. hyperbola

  16. exaggeration, (l)