• Hyperbole (/haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ ; adj. hyperbolic /ˌhaɪpərˈbɒlɪk/ ) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is...
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  • Love & Hyperbole is the upcoming fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alessia Cara, set for release on February 14, 2025. Work on the album...
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  • Hyperbole and a Half is a webcomic and blog written and illustrated by Allie Brosh. Started in 2009, Brosh often mixes text and illustrations to tell...
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  • In geometry, Thurston's geometrization theorem or hyperbolization theorem implies that closed atoroidal Haken manifolds are hyperbolic, and in particular...
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    1985) is an American blogger, writer, and comic artist best known for Hyperbole and a Half, a blog and webcomic she created in 2009. Brosh grew up in...
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  • The Epitome of Hyperbole is a 2008 Comedy Central Presents special featuring comedian Brian Regan. It first aired on September 6, 2008. An extended DVD...
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  • economic system but a morality play. The book coined the phrase "truthful hyperbole" describing "an innocent form of exaggeration—and... a very effective...
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  • American/Transamerican Cultural Studies. In 2006, the press also inaugurated "Hyperbole Books", specializing in "publishing cutting-edge, over-the-top experiments...
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  • Brian Regan may refer to: Brian Regan (comedian) (born 1958), American stand-up comedian Brian Regan (actor) (born 1957), British actor Brian Patrick Regan...
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    "Alesia Cara - Love & Hyperbole [LP] | Siren Records" – via sirenrecords.com. https://www.fnac.com/a20836018/Alessia-Cara-Love-et-Hyperbole-CD-album Forums...
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    usages of hyperbole describes something as better or worse than it really is. An example of hyperbole is: "The bag weighed a ton." Hyperbole makes the...
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    as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile. “Figurative language examples include “similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, allusions, and...
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  • 14, 2007. His second Comedy Central special, entitled The Epitome of Hyperbole, premiered on September 6, 2008. A DVD of the performance was released...
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    2024, as the lead single from her upcoming fourth studio album, Love & Hyperbole. Cara wrote the song alongside producer Mike Elizondo. Cara changed her...
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    modern times. Usually, the phrase "dying from laughter" is used as a hyperbole. Laughter is normally harmless. However, death may result from several...
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  • (/ˌædɪˈnɑːtɒn, -tən/; plural adynata) is a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility:...
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  • trigonometric functions, defined using the hyperbola of or pertaining to hyperbole, the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech Hyperbolic...
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    Historian Friedrich Christoph Schlosser remarked at the time, with ample hyperbole, that "Such was the number of portraits, busts and medallions of him in...
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  • figures of speech, can take multiple forms, such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and many others. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature says that...
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  • Look up hype in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hype (derived from hyperbole) is promotion, especially promotion consisting of exaggerated claims. Hype...
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    selling their children as food to the elite. Swift's use of satirical hyperbole was intended to mock hostile attitudes towards the poor and anti-Catholicism...
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    racial stereotypes. Chidi, George (August 3, 2024). "Name-calling and hyperbole: Trump continues fear-mongering fest at Georgia rally". The Guardian....
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  • April 12, 1994. p. 23. Neibylski, Dianna C (1998). "Heartburn, Humor and Hyperbole in Like Water for Chocolate". In Hengen, Shannon (ed.). Performing Gender...
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    She worked as a barista while in school. In 2010, Reasonover starred in HYPERBOLE: origins at [Inside] the Ford as a part of the Los Angeles-based art collective...
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    NJ: Princeton UP. p. 222. ISBN 0-691-06004-5. Claridge, Claudia (2010) Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration p.257 Kharpertian, Theodore...
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    1797–98, "Hamilton increasingly mistook dissent for treason and engaged in hyperbole." Furthermore, the Jeffersonian opposition party behaved the same way...
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  • (usually assumed to be the stupid one) provides the resolving juxtaposition. Hyperbole, an overstatement, is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated...
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    diversion, or even censorship, when miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole even when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate. Godwin has...
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    was so nervous that I had a butterfly farm in my stomach" could be a hyperbole, because it is exaggerated. "That filthy place was really dirty" is an...
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    that Nineveh was "turned into mounds and heaps", but this is literary hyperbole. The complete destruction of Nineveh has traditionally been seen as confirmed...
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