I absolutely love hyperboles, and I use them 1000 times a day. A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration and, although I don’t literally use them 1000 times a day, I do use them quite often. I think it’s really fun to over exaggerate things and it usually gets a laugh as well.

“Tis whiter than an Indian Pipe” by Emily Dickinson is a famous poem holding multiple hyperboles. By using this technique, Dickinson truly emphasizes the details of what she is describing. Instead of saying “Tis white,” she adds this hyperbolic comparison to paint an image in the readers head of something extremely white. Although they are extreme, hyperbolic phrases add character to both literature and everyday conversations. That’s why when I hear When I Grow Up by the Pussycat Dolls on the radio, I say “I haven’t heard that song in years!” even though I probably listened to it last summer. The use of hyperboles is amusing and if I didn’t use them, I’d literally die.