Hyperbole and Metaphor

Hyperbole

Hyperbole noun - The representation of something in terms that go beyond the facts.

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Metaphor and hyperbole are semantically related in exaggeration topic. In some cases you can use "Metaphor" instead a noun "Hyperbole".

Metaphor noun - An elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something.

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Hyperbole and metaphor are semantically related in exaggeration topic. You can use "Hyperbole" instead a noun "Metaphor".

Nearby Word: metaphorical

Cohen the Barbarian does understand sarcasm, in a vague sense, but he has a little more trouble with metaphor and hyperbole.

Source: Sarcasm-Blind
The 'Burning Throne' of Rhin-Lotharinge is no metaphor or hyperbole, but literally cloaked in purifying flames such that those characters are not deemed worthy of a phoenix's choice, dare not sit upon it, lest they burn for their ambition and avarice.

Source: Light Novel / Daybreak On Hyperion
One of the historical Patricians of Ankh-Morpork, Olaf Quimby II, manifested a particularly intense version of this as part of the inevitable madness that afflicted all past Patricians; he made metaphor and hyperbole illegal and punishable by death.

Source: Literature / Discworld

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