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Definition of Hyperboles
1. hyperbole [n] - See also: hyperbole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperboles
Literary usage of Hyperboles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... and to hyperboles, under the head of which we get a useful touch of contempt
for Isocrates.8 We are in deeper and more living waters when we come to the ..."
2. A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government: Including by Robert Walsh (1810)
"... hyperboles with regard to her military and pecuniary resources. Upon these
resources alone she must rely in her competition with France; ..."
3. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith (1820)
"The difficulty lies in choosing such hyperboles, as the subject will admit of;
for, according to the definition of Theo- ..."
4. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles."—Blair.
Some examples are the following : " Rivers of blood and hills of slain ..."
5. A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature by Alexander Jamieson (1840)
"hyperboles are improper, when they may be turned against the argument of the
author who uses them. ..."
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