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hyperbole

exaggeration as rhetorical device
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Summary

hyperbole is a rhetorical device[1]. hyperbole draws 5,436 Wikipedia views per month (rhetorical device category, ranking #2 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: stylistic device[3]
  • Subclass of: catastrophizing[4], figure of speech[5]
  • Commons category: Hyperbole[6]
  • Said to be the same as: catastrophizing[7]
  • Opposite of: understatement[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10], Lean Logic[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[13], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[14]
  • Different from: hyperbola[15]
  • Uses: catastrophizing[16]

Why It Matters

hyperbole has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] hyperbole is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Lean Logic

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  3. [5] ↑ . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → rhetorical device, stylistic device
    Opposite of → understatement
    Said to be the same as → catastrophizing
    Uses → catastrophizing
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