Exaggerate is a verb.
"That's a nice story, Lisa, but please don't exaggerate."
Hyperbole means to exaggerate in the style of a figure of speech.
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Personification
"Exaggerating" is a verb. It is the gerund form of the verb "to exaggerate".
Figure of speech
adjective
The word would be exaggerate.
The root word of "exaggerate" is "aggerare," which comes from the Latin word "adgerare" meaning "to heap up" or "to increase."
simile
Onomatopoeia
Figure of speech is the use of word or phrase to interpret a certain idea. The second figure of speech means, continuing the same sentence or making a comparison with the idea in the previous sentence.