hyperbole

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hyperbole englannista suomeksi

1. hyperbola

0. Substantiivi

1. hyperbola

hyperbole englanniksi

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

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2. (RQ:Langley Rhetoric)

3. (RQ:Hawthorne Twice-Told Tales)

4. (RQ:Cooper Deerslayer)

5. (quote-book)|title=History as Literature, and Other Essays|passage=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.

6. (quote-book) That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.

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

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11. An instance or example of such overstatement.

12. (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

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

14. A hyperbola.

15. hyperbole

16. hyperbola

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17. exaggeration, (l)