Figures of Speech Hyperbole Quiz : Hyperbole is a rhetorical and literary device that involves deliberate and extreme exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally, used to emphasize a point, evoke strong emotions, or create a dramatic or humorous effect.
Famous Examples of Hyperbole from English literature:
| # | Hyperbole Example | Literary Work | Writer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Ten thousand saw I at a glance.” | I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | William Wordsworth |
| 2 | “Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” | Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| 3 | “A hundred years should go to praise thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze.” | To His Coy Mistress | Andrew Marvell |
| 4 | “I cried a river over you.” | Collected Poems | Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| 5 | “I had to wait in the station for ten days—an eternity.” | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| 6 | “My vegetable love should grow vaster than empires and more slow.” | To His Coy Mistress | Andrew Marvell |
| 7 | “Love you ten years before the flood, and you should, if you please, refuse till the conversion of the Jews.” | To His Coy Mistress | Andrew Marvell |
| 8 | “If I be waspish, best beware my sting.” | The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare |
| 9 | “There was a sound of revelry by night, and Belgium’s capital had gathered then her beauty and her chivalry, and bright the lamps shone o’er fair women and brave men.” | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage | Lord Byron |
| 10 | “He was so tall that I was not sure he had a face.” | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
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Figures of Speech Hyperbole Quiz
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