- Look up
exaggeration in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Exaggeration is the
representation of
something as more
extreme or
dramatic than it is, intentionally...
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Vertical exaggeration (VE) is a
scale that is used in raised-relief maps,
plans and
technical drawings (cross
section perspectives), in
order to emphasize...
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Exaggeration postcards, also
known as tall tale postcards, were
postcards po****r
throughout North America,
especially in the
Great Plains region, during...
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exaggeration, emplo**** by Disney, was to
remain true to reality, just
presenting it in a wilder, more
extreme form.
Other forms of
exaggeration can...
- this by his
short visits to the country. The
report of my
death was an
exaggeration. — Twain
Twain lived in his
later years at 14 West 10th
Street in Manhattan...
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Hyperbole (/haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ ; adj.
hyperbolic /ˌhaɪpərˈbɒlɪk/ ) is the use of
exaggeration as a
rhetorical device or
figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes...
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social commentary that is
anything but funny.
Satire often uses
irony or
exaggeration to
expose faults in
society or
individuals that
influence social ideology...
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dismiss or are
highly skeptical of such
statistics and deem them to be
exaggerations by
Muslim chroniclers of that era. Indeed, as far as the
Iranian plateau...
- Dio's
figures for the
demographic consequences of the Bar
Kokhba War:
Exaggeration or
reliable account?".
Journal of
Roman Archaeology. 34 (2): 585–607...
- and is
introducing new
ideas that are
discordant with, or an
extreme exaggeration of, its
original purpose. The
phrase was
coined in 1985 by
radio personality...
