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GCSE English Literature · key term
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or effect.
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Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to convey the intensity of a feeling or idea.
Revise: GuiltThe hyperbole makes his guilt appear capable of contaminating the world rather than being removed by it. Physical blood has become a symbol of moral responsibility.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or expressive effect.
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Deliberate exaggeration used to express a feeling or emphasise an idea.
An exaggerated statement used for emphasis rather than as a literal description.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or emotional effect.
Exaggeration used for emphasis, such as a lover promising that losing a ring would mean losing his life.
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Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as imagining that an ocean cannot wash away blood.
Revise: GuiltThe hyperbole suggests that his guilt is greater than any physical remedy. Enjambment carries the question from 'blood' into 'Clean', delaying the completion of his anxious question until the next line.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as imagining that a bloodstained hand could turn an entire ocean red.
Deliberate exaggeration used to express strong feeling or create an effect.
Deliberate exaggeration used to express an intense feeling or emphasise an idea.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or emotional effect.
Exaggeration used for emphasis or effect, such as Benedick imagining Beatrice’s influence reaching the north star.
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Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or effect, rather than to make a literal claim.
Revise: Chapters 7 to 10: the fete, Nanima and Anita's visitLiterally, “window-shattering” means capable of breaking windows; here, its figurative meaning is that the belch is extremely loud, not that windows actually break. This hyperbole, or deliberate exaggeration, gives the exchange the scale of a comic contest. Papa’s explanation that a burp can express appreciation, followed by Anita’s memory of her own grandmother’s unpleasant habits, briefly reduces Meena’s embarrassment: her family is no longer uniquely awkward.
Deliberate exaggeration used to create an effect, such as conveying a child’s admiration for a seemingly powerful parent.
Exaggeration used for emphasis, such as describing tears as an ocean.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, humour or another effect.
Deliberate exaggeration used to emphasise an idea or create an effect.
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Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or emotional effect.
Revise: Act 2Juliet warns Romeo, ‘If they do see thee, they will murder thee.’ He answers that there is more danger in her eye than in ‘twenty of their swords’. This hyperbole expresses the intensity of his feelings, but it also shows him replacing a real threat with romantic language.
A deliberately exaggerated statement used for emphasis rather than literal accuracy.
Deliberate exaggeration for emphasis, such as imagining that all the perfumes in Arabia cannot remove the smell of blood.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as imagining that blood could turn all the seas red.
An exaggerated statement used for emphasis or effect.
An exaggerated statement used for emphasis or emotional effect.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, humour or emotional intensity.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as a lover’s claim that they would die a thousand deaths.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as presenting a lover's feelings as limitless.
An exaggerated statement used to convey strong feeling or create emphasis.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or dramatic effect.
Deliberate exaggeration for emphasis, such as Portia’s wish to multiply her qualities for Bassanio.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or an effect such as humour.
Deliberate exaggeration used to create an effect, such as intimidation or comedy.
Deliberate exaggeration for emphasis, such as the assembly’s judgement that Darcy is the most disagreeable man in the world.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as presenting love as extending through every dimension the soul can reach.
An exaggerated statement used for emphasis rather than intended literally.
An exaggerated statement used for emphasis rather than as a literal claim.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as expressing a willingness to make an extreme sacrifice.
Language that deliberately exaggerates for emphasis or effect.
An exaggerated statement used for emphasis or comic effect.
Exaggeration used for emphasis, such as Elizabeth calling Darcy the last man she could marry.
Deliberate exaggeration used to create an effect, such as humour or an impression of overwhelming power.
Deliberate exaggeration used to express intensity or create an effect.
Exaggeration used to emphasise an idea or feeling.
Deliberate exaggeration for emphasis, such as Portia wishing to be many times richer and more beautiful for Bassanio.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as imagining that one bloodstained hand could turn the oceans red.
Deliberate exaggeration used to emphasise an idea or feeling.
Exaggeration used for emphasis, humour or another effect.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, humour or emotional intensity.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, humour or emotional intensity.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as a lover claiming willingness to die a thousand times.
An exaggerated statement used for emphasis rather than intended literally.
A deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis, such as Portia's wish to multiply her qualities for Bassanio.
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis rather than as a literal statement.
A deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or effect.
An exaggerated statement used to create emphasis.
