Hyperbole

A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration Example: By: Christina Thomas Morgan Warenius
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 * Examples:**
 * It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets.
 * I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
 * She is as thin as a toothpick.
 * This car goes faster than the speed of light.
 * Our new house cost a bazillion dollars.
 * We are poor and don’t have two cents to rub together.
 * The car is as fast as greased lightning.
 * You could have knocked me over with a feather.
 * Her brain is the size of a pea.
 * Grandpa is older than dirt.
 * She screamed so loud that the rest of the world could hear her.
 * I can't live without pizza.

An exaggerated statement used to show how extremely the author/ character feels about something.

-"How hot is it outside?" "10000000000000000000 degrees"

-"Are you ok?" "No, I'm dead."

-"The only thing that can make me happy is Roxanne! I will die if i do not have her!"

-"I'm so hungry I can eat a horse." Ex. I told my son a million times to stop saying potty words.

Hyperbole - a use of an exaggeration in a work of literature as a figure of speech; used to create emphasis or effect
Example: "It seemed like I had been trying for over an hour now to fix the door, but only ten minutes had passed."

Hyperbole Website

Another Example: "The boy cried a river." "It's raining cats and dogs outside!"

In A Doll's House, Nora demonstrates hyperbole when she wants to rip the note into "a hundred thousand pieces".

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Example of Hyperbole -Jamie Solomon

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