Assertion: hyperbole | /r/HasProperty | rhetorical device
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text: Hyperbole is a rhetorical device in which a person uses an exaggeration or overstatement in order to create a negative or positive feeling.
text: In these circumstances, hyperbole is called for, the rhetorical figure that raises its objects up, excessively, way above their actual merit : it is not to deceive by exaggeration that one overshoots the mark, but to allow the true value, the truth of what is insufficiently valued, to appear.
text: Hyperbole is a rhetorical resource widely used in poem writing, as it is very useful for generating more beauty in the construction of the verse or stanza.
text: Hyperbole is a rhetorical figure of thought characterized by intentional exaggeration of the narrated facts in order to attract the attention of the listener.
text: Hyperbole is a rhetorical device in which statements are exaggerated.