ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hyperbole is a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hyperbole uses figurative language to make an overstatement or exaggeration. This figure of speech creates emphasis and depending on the context, you can use it for comic or dramatic effect, to create vivid images, or to convey intensity or emotion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Exaggeration simply means going over the top. An example is when you are waiting for your friend, and you’ve been waiting 5 minutes, but you say to him: ‘I’ve been waiting for like half an hour!’ Hyperbole means UNREALISTIC exaggeration.

Detailed explanation-4: -hyperbole-obvious and deliberate exaggeration; an extravagant statement; a figure of speech not intended to. be taken literally. Hyperboles are often used for dramatic or comic effect.

Detailed explanation-5: -They ran like greased lightning. He’s got tons of money. Her brain is the size of a pea. He is older than the hills. I will die if she asks me to dance. She is as big as an elephant! I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. I have told you a million times not to lie!