Sean Hannity

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

American Writer

Wilson Cruz

I don't think it's exaggeration or hyperbole to say that Pedro Zamora changed the world.

American Actor

Adam Carolla

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

American Entertainer

Bill Moyers

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

American Journalist

Ron Chernow

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

American Author

John Legend

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

American Musician

Billy Eichner

All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.

American Comedian

Eden Sher

American Actress

Terry Gilliam

American Director

Ty Burrell

Hyperbole often carries strong emotions to highlight feelings or create humor.

Emotional Impact

Remember, hyperboles are not meant to be taken literally; they're for emphasis.

Avoid Literality

Hyperbole is frequently used in everyday conversation, not just in writing.

Common in Speech

In literature, hyperbole serves to create vivid imagery and express strong emotions.

Literary Device

Unlike lies, hyperboles are not meant to deceive but to emphasize points.

Distinguish from Lies

Identify hyperboles by looking for descriptions that seem too extreme or impossible.

Recognizing Hyperbole

 Freeman Dyson is actually not hyperbole this is an accurate assessment of what's going on our digital art technologies are great gifts and we right now have the great good fortune to be living at a time when digital technology is flourishing when it is broadening and deepening and being becoming more

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 by a victorious army that we've got. And it's written, as we'll see in due course, by very skilled P.R. consultants. So the hyperbole is not actually surprising. And what is the great king, the powerful king, the king of the four quarters of the world going to do?

Neil MacGregor: 2600...

 is not hyperbole at all. This is just a plain statement of the facts. We are in the middle of an astonishing period. Which brings up another great What could possibly go wrong in this new machine age? Right? Great, hang up, flourish, go home.

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 into safe, affordable community housing. Educational initiatives like DIL and The Citizen Foundation that are building schools across the country. It's not hyperbole to say that these civil society institutions and these social entrepreneurs

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 I was exploring, at the time, the hyperbole of icons -- and Diana and Marilyn -- and the importance of celebrity in our lives. How they wheedle their way into the collective psyche without us even knowing, and how that should happen.

Alison Jackson: A...

 is actually not hyperbole. This is an accurate assessment of what's going on. Our technologies are great gifts, and we, right now, have the great good fortune to be living at a time when digital technology is flourishing,

Andrew McAfee: Are...

 The cause of our time is the brutality that so many people face around the world because of their gender. So some of you may be thinking, "Gosh, that's hyperbole. She's exaggerating." Well, let me ask you this question.

Sheryl WuDunn: Our...

 And the problem with saying that, of course, is that you know, at this point it risks hyperbole really easily. And I'd like to make a metaphor, but I don't have one really. I was drinking this guy's Kool-Aid so much,

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 Of course what we did when faced with such outrageous hyperbole was what any self-respecting researchers would have done. We took a page out of XKCD,

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 of course what we did when faced with such outrageous hyperbole was what any self-respecting researchers would have done

Hyperbole

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