Figurative Language: Hyperbole
Hyperbole is a literary device used to draw emphasis through extreme exaggeration. Hyperbole is not meant to be taken literally, but rather understood as a means of communicating something specific. Those who hear or read the hyperbole should understand that it is an exaggeration.
Examples:
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse
My feet are killing me
That plane ride took forever
This is the best book ever written
I love you to the moon and back
The pen is mightier than the sword
I've told you this 20,000 times
Cry me a river
Hyperbole in a poem:
Lunch Time
The lunch line’s a mile long — it never will end!
I’m starving so much I could eat ten pizzas, my friend!
The noise in the lunchroom could shatter the sky,
With laughs loud enough to make spaceships fly.
I trade one small cookie for a kingdom of snacks,
’Cause lunchtime’s the wildest — no rules, just snacks!
Go Bulldogs!!
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