- Look up
exaggeration in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Exaggeration is the
representation of
something as more
extreme or
dramatic than it is, intentionally...
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Vertical exaggeration (VE) is a
scale that is used in raised-relief maps,
plans and
technical drawings (cross
section perspectives), in
order to emphasize...
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Exaggeration postcards, also
known as tall tale postcards, were
postcards po****r
throughout North America,
especially in the
Great Plains region, during...
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exaggeration, emplo**** by Disney, was to
remain true to reality, just
presenting it in a wilder, more
extreme form.
Other forms of
exaggeration can...
- this by his
short visits to the country. The
report of my
death was an
exaggeration. 1897 — Twain In his
later years,
Twain lived at 14 West 10th Street...
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Hyperbole (/haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ ; adj.
hyperbolic /ˌhaɪpərˈbɒlɪk/ ) is the use of
exaggeration as a
rhetorical device or
figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes...
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defined using the
hyperbola of or
pertaining to hyperbole, the use of
exaggeration as a
rhetorical device or
figure of
speech Hyperbolic (album), by Pnau...
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social commentary that is
anything but funny.
Satire often uses
irony or
exaggeration to
expose faults in
society or
individuals that
influence social ideology...
- and
roots towards light and gravity, and
concluded "It is
hardly an
exaggeration to say that the tip of the
radicle . . acts like the
brain of one of...
- elements,
related as if it were true and factual. Some tall
tales are
exaggerations of
actual events, for
example fish
stories ("the fish that got away")...
