Hyperbole Literary Term

Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech in which there is an obvious, extravagant or overstatement.

For example

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
• Ten thousand saw I at a glance.
• I have a million things to do today.
• He's got tons of money.
• I am tired to death.
• I've told you to do that a million times!