Why does a playwright use hyperbole?

Answer 1

It was his job. That is one of the ways that he made his living.

Answer 2

It is possible to find an example of how to use hyperbole in a playwright in "The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. The playwright uses hyperbole as a literary device to show through Lady Blacknell exchange with Algernon how it should be an even number of people present at the dinner table when Algernon tries to decline the offer of feasting with her.

Answer 3

Shakespeare used allusions to stories which anyone who had been to school would understand, and a great many who had not would have heard of from those who had. People who went to school would know those stories from having been obliged to translate Ovid's Metamorphoses and similar texts. And although the mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream may not have been to school (although they can apparently read), they have some idea about these stories, although they sometimes get things a bit wrong (like calling Lysander Limander).

Nowadays a great many people have not heard of Ovid's Metamorphoses and are vaguely if at all familiar with the stories it tells, so Shakespeare's allusions seem strange. But modern plays and screenplays which make allusions to Shakespeare, which everyone has studied at school, seem quite comprehensible. A great many people find no difficulty in understanding allusions to pop culture, because they have made a point of and have spent many hours learning all about pop culture.

Answer 4

Shakespeare uses hyperbole for the same reason that he uses any other figure of speech--to make his writing more powerful. Compare "It was kinda boring." with "It was so boring that we weren't dying of boredom in there; we were dying, disintegrating and turning to dust."

Answer 5

He used it in his plays because back then the audience found it really funny for example: in misummers nights dream the beautiful fairy queen fell in love witha horrible donkey/man.

Answer 6

All writers, including Shakespeare, use a variety of literary techniques such as metaphor, simile, allegory, symbolism, rhyming, and many more to make their writing as appealing as possible.

Answer 7

Shakespeare used hyperbole because hyperboles can make your text 1000% more effective--a text with a hyperbole cannot fail to be understood.