Question

Which sentence is an example of hyperbole?
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A. I'll go insane if I don't get invited to the party.
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B. The wind pushed the leaves through the yard.
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C. The cast on Byron's leg was a plaster shackle.
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D. Her eyes were as blue as the summer sky.
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Answer 1

The answer is A.

Hyperbole is an exaggeration

B. The wind pushed the leaves through the yard is a personification. It’s giving human qualities/abilities/characteristics to the wind.

C. It’s just stating something not exaggerating anything at all

D. It is a simile. It’s comparing her blue eyes with the summer sky and uses ‘as’

So the only answer is A.

A. Obviously nobody will go insane from not being invited to a party. So it’s an over exaggeration.

Answer 2

Hyperbole is an example of exaggeration. I'll go insane if I don't get invited to the party.

What is Hyperbole?

Hyperbole, hyperbolic (listen)) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis (literally 'growth'). In poetry and oratory, it emphasizes, evokes strong feelings, and creates strong impressions. As a figure of speech, it is usually not meant to be taken literally.

Hyperbole has been used throughout literature for many centuries. Heroic dramas, which are dramas with an emphasis on grandeur and excess, often make use of hyperbole to extend the effect and epic nature of the genre. Modern tall tales also make use of hyperbole to exaggerate the feats and characteristics of their protagonists. For example, the American tall tale about Paul Bunyan relies heavily on hyperbole to establish Bunyan's giant stature and abilities.

For hyperbole to be effective it needs to be obvious, deliberate, and outlandish. Using hyperbolic speech as a character trait can denote an unreliable narrator.

Emerson's Concord Hymn uses hyperbole in the lines "Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world."

In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, the protagonist emerges from his shelter to find total destruction, and makes the hyperbolic statement that "Dresden was like the moon now, nothing but minerals." The hyperbole conveys how completely the city was ruined.

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