language Features - Hyperbole

A Hyperbole is a use of over exaggeration that shouldn't be taken literally, It's also used to make you understand a little more about how someone could be feeling. For example "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow." You can't physically eat a cow but you are exaggerating that you will, you're just saying that you are really hungry. When a writer uses hyperbole they want you to see how someone might be feeling. A writer might use hyperbole because they want you to imagine how a character might feel

Hyperbole

An exaggeration

I've told her that a million times!

I'm so hungry I could eat a Tyrannosaurus rex

She’s told that story a billion times, yet she keeps repeating it every day.

Some examples from the internet are

- I told you to clean your room a billion times!

- His brain is smaller than a pea