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Hyperbole (exaggeration or "hype") is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis. Here are a few examples:
- It is going to take a bazillion years to get through Medical School.
- I ate the whole cow.
- He's 900 years old.
- I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
- There are millions of other things to do.
- Running faster than the speed of light.
- You could be Miss Universe.
- It took light years for this to work.
- I waited in line for centuries.
- I've told you a million times don't exaggerate.
- I had to walk fifteen miles uphill both ways, in snow five feet deep.
- I had worse than that in my eye.
- If I don't get these jeans, I will DIE!
- I have a million things to do today.
- I could eat a horse.
- She cried for days.
- The whole world was staring at me.
- The package took forever to arrive in the mail.
- I had a ton of homework.
- it took him two seconds to drive here.
- Her smile was a mile wide.
- His teeth were blinding white.
- My car is a million years old.
- I don't have two cents to rub together.
- I told you a thousand times!
- Maybe I'll do it in a million years.
- I was so embarrassed, I thought I might die.
- I am so tired I could sleep for a year.
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