Author:
Laura McKinney
Date Of Creation:
2 August 2021
Update Date:
4 May 2024
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The exaggeration it is a rhetorical figure whose purpose is to surpass the credible limits of something. An exaggeration can be a picture, a word, or a phrase. For example: His love was deeper than the ocean.
Also known as hyperbole, exaggeration is often accompanied by a comparison with an absurdity, a phrase figuratively lacking in logic.
The point of exaggeration is to get a greater reaction or impact from the receiver. It is a resource widely used in jokes, riddles, expressions linked to the comic or absurd.
- See also: Hyperbole
Examples of exaggeration
- That is no longer a secret because you already know it all the world.
- His fear it was bigger than a house.
- Her boyfriend measured like two meters.
- I've seen that movie like a thousand times.
- That night, they looked into each other's eyes and they kissed thousands of times before they said goodbye.
- Am dead from exhaustion.
- ¡I'm starving that I have!
- I i burned the eyelashes from studying so much.
- This job It's a hell.
- I die for seeing it again.
- She is the person most beautiful in the world.
- Cried like a whole sea.
- This is the best cell phone in the world.
- You are more slow than a turtle.
- You crawled like a snake.
- I have sent you infinity of messages today.
- I it hurts even the soul.
- You have lost so much weight that you look like an asparagus.
- You are so obese that you look like a ball.
- The he lowered the stars.
- He was so amazed that his eyes were like two plates.
- That attitude will end up making you die in life.
- Their arms were so long that they spanned several kilometers to where she was.
- ate until burst.
- Drank all the alcohol in the world in one night.
- Anahí was the girl smartest in the world.
- Thaddeus is so ugly that he approached the mirror and it broke.
- That fish was so big that his eye couldn't fit through the window.
- The boy ran as fast as lightning.
- His love was bigger than the heat of the sun.
- He was such a kind man that his heart was bigger than his chest.
- I'll tell you a million times more.
- We will do this exercise a hundred times more until everyone understands.
- It I knew and knew everything.
- She had traveled so much that I knew every corner of the planet.
- Their ears were so big I could hear what they were saying in China.
- He was fat but short. So it was easier to jump it than to go around it.
- It was so high that looked like Everest.
- Had so hungry he could have eaten a cow.
- Had one head so big I needed to ask for an umbrella instead of a hat.
- A wound deeper than the sea.
- Was so thin it looked like a sheet of paper.
- It hurts even the last name.
- It rains in buckets.
- That love that made your pocket hurt.
- Was a car as fast as an airplane.
- Faster than an eagle.
- Stronger what a mint sweet.
- That dress it cost me an arm and a leg.
- Rocío wore like 50 kilos of supplies in that backpack.
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