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 Translation for 'hyperbole' from English to Czech
NOUN   a hyperbole | hyperboles
SYNO exaggeration | hyperbole
lit.
hyperbole {noun}
nadsázka {f}
lit.rét.
hyperbole {noun}
hyperbola {f}
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Translation for 'hyperbole' from English to Czech

hyperbole {noun}
nadsázka {f}lit.

hyperbola {f}lit.rét.
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Usage Examples English
  • Hype (derived from hyperbole) is promotion, especially promotion consisting of exaggerated claims.
  • If one for example wishes to draw a hyperbole on the screen, the application must first compute the required Programmable Symbols to make up hyperbole and load them to the terminal.
  • Many times the usages of hyperbole describes something as better or worse than it really is.
  • Hyperbole has been used throughout literature for many centuries.
  • Relevance theory also attempts to explain figurative language such as hyperbole, metaphor and irony.

  • must be taken as hyperbole.
  • His prose was based on his own real experiences, confusing investigation of his actual life, because it is not always clear what is true and what is only poetic hyperbole.
  • In response and reaction to this hyperbole, modern historians and biographers have tended to take a more dispassionate view of the Tudor period.
  • The narration (typically provided by the host) often verges on hyperbole.
  • Philip Connolly, writing in "An Phoblacht," praises Pratt for his straight talking and for avoiding political hyperbole.

  • Usually, the phrase "dying from laughter" is used as a hyperbole.
  • Brdečka's work is marked by its droll intellectual humor, often featuring an extensive use of hyperbole, satire, and literary illusions.
  • "Reserved for the Death" was, according to author Sabine Hake, one of a "hyperbole of espionage thrillers" produced soon after the erection of the Berlin Wall.
  • Amplification may refer to exaggeration or to stylistic vices such as figures of excess or superfluity (e.g., hyperbole).
  • Dunphy's hyperbole was parodied on RTÉ's "Après Match" show lampooning celebrities, footballers and broadcasters.

  • Not without hyperbole, the pump was once referenced thus "East of Aldgate Pump, people cared for nothing but drink, vice and crime".
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