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Hyperbole

A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Image 76% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Trope 76% connected

The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the orig…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exaggerate 74% connected

To heap up; to accumulate.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exaggerate 74% connected

To heap up; to accumulate.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exaggeration 92% connected

The act of heaping or piling up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Allocution noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts

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Exordium noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse

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Narration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

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Parenesis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) exhortation; admonition.; "In Deuteronomy it is often impossible to separate parenesis from history."

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Peroration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"

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Ploce noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning

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Tapinosis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.; "The last and perhaps t…

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Counterargument noun · 78% connection

an argument offered in opposition to another argument

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Rhetorical device noun · 78% connection

a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

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Rhetorical question noun · 78% connection

a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered; "he liked to make his points with rhetorical que…

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Analogy noun · 78% connection

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…

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Anaphora noun · 78% connection

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

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Antithesis noun · 78% connection

exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine"

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Chiasmus noun · 78% connection

inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

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Commiseration noun · 78% connection

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"

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Correspondence noun · 78% connection

similarity by virtue of corresponding

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Doctrine of analogy noun · 78% connection

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…

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Epanaphora noun · 78% connection

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

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Abscission noun · 78% connection

A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor,…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: figure, speech, expression, evident, exaggeration.
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Allegory noun · 78% connection

A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

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Apodictical adjective · 78% connection

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction.

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Axiom adjective · 78% connection

A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can m…

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Boast verb · 78% connection

To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belong…

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Brag verb · 78% connection

To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boas…

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Capricorn noun · 78% connection

A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish.

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Caricature verb · 78% connection

An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

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Contrast verb · 78% connection

To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.

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Cyclorama noun · 78% connection

A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature.…

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Disclosure noun · 78% connection

the speech act of making something evident

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Disorganized schizophrenia noun · 78% connection

a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…

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