Some treat them with a pinch of salt, seeing the stories as typical press hyperbole to boost sales.
Exaggeration is a pretty good synonym for hyperbole.
A hyperbole is something very exaggerated, like, "That shark could have swallowed 100 of me whole!" Obviously, the shark wasn't that big. It's an exaggeration that the shark was big.
A brain the size of the sun
Probably not. He or she may be the best speller in class. Calling them the best speller in the world would be an example of hyperbole.
There are millions of examples of hyperbole. You could say that milk costs about a thousand dollars today for example.
Yes, that is an example of hyperbole. (high-PURR-buh-lee)
An example of hyperbole is "The shark swallowed 100% of me but I managed to escape".
Hyperbole is when you exagerate... I sometimes make a hyperbole sentence to exagerate and it also make my friends laugh and understand me.
Depending on the context, I would not regard it as hyperbole.
An example of a figurative sentence on a second grade level is "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse." It contains hyperbole.
"The archaeologist was prone to hyperbole in describing his exploits."
Hyperbole means exaggeration so you are being asked to exaggerate in your sentence.
A hyperbole is certain a feature of speech. A hyperbole is an over-exaggeration of a certain aspect of the sentence.
My sister uses so much makeup,. .... he only has cat friends!"
Hyperbole means to exaggerate in the style of a figure of speech.
one sentence could be i have pointed out to my dad that he was using hyperbole when he said "i've told you a thousand times to clean your room" i hope this helped i got it from my 7th grade vocabulary book lol A hyperbole is a dramatization or over-reaction. Example: I'm so hungry I could eat a humpback whale(thelargest animal in the world).
No.