hyperbole
/haɪˈpɜːbəli/ (bre, ipa) · /haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ (ame, ipa) · /hī-ˈpər-bə-(ˌ)lē/ (ame, mw)
hyperbole — 名詞
1. language that overstates how big, good, bad, or extreme something is, used for e
誇飾；誇張法
為了效果刻意誇大的修辭手法
language that overstates how big, good, bad, or extreme something is, used for effect rather than to be taken literally.
Dahlia called the traffic jam "the worst in human history," which was obvious hyperbole.
Dahlia 把這場塞車說成「人類史上最嚴重的一次」，明顯是誇飾。
obvious / pure / sheer hyperbole as a fixed pattern
The advert used hyperbole to claim the cream would erase ten years overnight.
這則廣告運用誇飾，宣稱這款乳霜能讓人一夜之間年輕十歲。
use of hyperbole in advertising / marketing language
Tuan's review was full of hyperbole, calling the small café the best place on Earth.
Tuan 的評論充滿誇飾，把這家小咖啡館形容成世界上最棒的地方。
Politicians often use hyperbole during elections to make their plans sound more dramatic.
政治人物在選舉期間常常使用誇飾，讓自己的政見聽起來更有戲劇性。
Saying she had told him a million times to clean his room was clearly hyperbole.
她說已經叫他打掃房間一百萬次了，這顯然是誇飾。
- exaggeration
the everyday word; hyperbole is the formal / literary term for the same idea.
- overstatement
neutral; emphasises going beyond what is true rather than the rhetorical effect.
- embellishment
softer; suggests adding colourful detail rather than wild overstatement.
- understatement
deliberately making something sound smaller or less important than it is.
- litotes
formal rhetorical term for ironic understatement, often through double negatives.
文法句型
use of hyperbole
pure/sheer hyperbole
用法筆記
Usually uncountable when describing the rhetorical device in general ("full of hyperbole"); occasionally countable when referring to a specific exaggerated expression ("a hyperbole"). Subject is typically a speaker, writer, or text; common collocates are "use," "resort to," "full of," and "pure / sheer."