Hyperbole

Literary Device Form

Always Include Citations Name of Literary Device Hyperbole

Definition: obvious and international exaggeration

Definition Restated in Your Own Words An overrated exaggeration....

A brief History of your device pronounced by ancient greeks meaning excess or exaggeration, it is a figure of speech...

Three Written Examples I’ve told you a million times don’t exaggerate. I could eat a elephant. I waited in line for years!!!!!

Literary Device Form Always Include Citations Name of Literary Device	hyperbole Definition:	A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect	www.google.com Definition Restated in Your Own Words	over exaggeration A brief History of your device	the history is unclear but hyper means over and bole means through 	http://www.jinxiboo.com/blog/2009/11/5/hyperbole-what-it-is-history-of-shel-silverstein-usage.html Three Written Examples I’m so hungry i could eat a horse 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole i could sleep for a year 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole I’ve got a million things to do right now 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole Include in your page at least one Quicktime Recordings of your Lit Device:	http://spongebob.nick.com/videos/play/chocolate-nuts-clip/ Make a Purpose Game and link it to your pages	Five questions including a definition and examples.