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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole

Incorporating VoiceMake Your Writing Come Alive
with Hyperbole
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What exactly is Hyperbole???
Incorporating Hyperbole

Hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses an
exaggerated or extravagant statement to create a
strong emotional response. As a figure of speech,
it is not intended to be taken literally.
Hyperbole is frequently used for humor.
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How to useHyperbole in your writing
Incorporating Hyperbole

Understand how Hyperbole can be used as an
effective writing tool to add whimsy and comic
relief to different forms of writing.
When writing fiction, poetry, memoirs,
humor or other creative work Hyperbole is an
extremely effective literary device. For example,
to describe a very long car trip, I might write,
"I'd been driving for about a hundred years when
I finally came to a fork in the road."
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How to useHyperbole in your writing
Incorporating Hyperbole

Use Hyperbole in writing to make your work more
focused and impressive.
This is dramatically more descriptive
than "I'd been driving for a very long time when
I finally came to a fork in the road." Since the
reader knows it's impossible for the writer to
drive for a hundred years, it becomes clear that
hyperbole is being used.
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How to useHyperbole in your writing
Incorporating Hyperbole
Be aware that the use of Hyperbole shows maturity
in writing, but they need to be used properly.

When used in advertising it is often
called "hype." Due to its negative connotation in
advertising, Hyperbole doesn't play an effective
role in ad copy or product reviews.
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
Hyperbole
What exactly do these exaggerations mean???

Here are some examples of the use of Hyperbole .
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
Ive told you a million times
Even though it might seem as if you have repeated
yourself a million times, chances are it has been
far fewer than ONE MILLION. This Hyperbole
illustrates the frustration a person feels when
having to continually repeat the same
information. Not that teachers know anything
about this.
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
I had a ton of homework.
Yes, your teacher enjoys giving you that legal
form of torture known as homework. And, yes, it
might seem as if there is a TON of it. However,
if you were to get a scale and weigh the
homework, it would not tip the scales at 2000
pounds.
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
If I cant buy that new game, I will die.
It is an awesome game. All of your friends have
it. If you do not purchase that game, you will
be the laughing stock of everyone at your school
because of your lack of coolness. Yet, it is
quite doubtful that you will actually die if you
do not own that game.
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
He is as skinny as a toothpick.
Now, this boy might be a little bit underweight.
But he is definitely not so thin that if you put
him next to a toothpick people would be unable to
distinguish the two of them apart.
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
A person can be surprised to the point of being
shocked. However, even if that person is totally
dumbfounded, it is doubtful someone could come
up, hit him with a FEATHER, and he would fall
over.
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
They ran like greased lightning.
They might be fast. They might be incredibly
fast. But they are not THAT fast!
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I
was riding on a dinosaur.
Now the joke may have been told a few times
before. Your grandparents and great grandparents
might have heard the joke (and it probably wasnt
funny then either), but dinosaurs definitely did
not hear that joke, no matter how old it is.
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
She is older than the hills.
People get old its a fact of life. But no
matter how old someone is, she is not older than
a geographic formation.
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
He's got tons of money.
He is probably rich. Really rich. However, hes
not THAT rich.
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Some folks never exaggerate -- they just
remember big.
Incorporating Hyperbole
That new car costs a bazillion dollars.
A bazillion? REALLY?!?!?!?!?