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	Hyperbole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Draw a cartoon about school or your favorite sport that includes a hyperbole (You might draw and exaggerate a humerous situation that you saw or were a part of the action.).
		Hyperbole is a figure of speech which is an exaggeration.
		Hyperboles are common in everyday language and in poetry.
	volweb.utk.edu /Schools/bedford/harrisms/hyperbole.htm (180 words)

	BeOpen.com Hyperbole Manual: Developing with Hyperbole
		Hyperbole supplies a number of hook variables that allow you to adjust its basic operations to meet your own needs, without requiring you to change the code for those operations.
		Hyperbole uses a terse format to store explicit buttons and a more meaningful one to show users and to manipulate during editing.
		The standard Hyperbole user interface has purposely been separated from the Hyperbole backend to support the development of alternative interfaces and the embedding of Hyperbole functionality within other system prototypes.
	www.xemacs.org /Documentation/packages/html/hyperbole_9.html (2175 words)

	BeOpen.com Hyperbole Manual: Installation
		Hyperbole must be obtained and installed at your site before you can use it.
		Professional releases of Hyperbole may also be purchased there to help support development; they include Hyperbole with full source code, a printed copy of this manual and installation support.
		Hyperbole always recognizes URLs within buffers when the Action Key is pressed on them.
	www.xemacs.org /Documentation/packages/html/hyperbole_11.html (1343 words)

	hyperbole - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		hyperbole, a figure of speech in which exceptional exaggeration is deliberately used for emphasis rather than deception.
		HyperBole and EII Team Up to Make Magic Real.
		Analysis: Alarming increase in the use of superlatives and hyperbole by the media
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hyperbole.html (200 words)

	What is Hyperbole?
		There are about a million ways to define hyperbole, but I'm not one to exaggerate for comical, ironic or dramatic effect.
		Hyperbole is a deliberate exaggeration used for dramatic or comic effect in literature.
		While there may be many examples of hyperbole, using the figure 'one million' is a deliberate exaggeration used as shorthand for some significantly high number.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-hyperbole.htm (382 words)

	William Bennett
		But the sticking point is that it's dangerous to use outrageous hyperbole to make a complex point, especially when the hyperbole confirms stereotypes your enemies already have about you.
		Instead, his hyperbole, something he's used before to characterize his political opponents, will be used to characterize him negatively.
		Hyperbole is commonly used in the political dialogue today.
	homepage.mac.com /larryhol/iblog/C2050680009/E20051001213650/index.html (422 words)

	Mrs. Dowling's Literature Terms-Hyperbole
		Hyperbole is used for emphasis or humorous effect.
		The skin on her face was as thin and drawn as tight as the skin of onion and her eyes were gray and sharp like the points of two picks
		Hyperbole can also be used to describe a person’s emotions.
	www.dowlingcentral.com /MrsD/area/literature/Terms/hyperbole.html (331 words)

	HyperBole Studios: Pressroom
		HyperBole and White Wolf are working together on development of the game, which is in the early design stages.
		HyperBole and Entertaining Ideas plan to use this agreement as a basis for an ongoing and expanded relationship in the games arena.
		HyperBole Studios, a creator of world-class interactive entertainment, was founded in 1990 by Greg Roach, one of the country's leading interactive designers.
	www.hyperbole.com /corp/pressroom/realmagic.html (421 words)

	Announcement of first public release of Hyperbole, V2.02.
		Hyperbole also possesses a lot of potentials in supporting a wider spectrum of structuredness, ranging from unstructured to highly structured environments, as well as structural changes over time.
		Hyperbole buttons may be clicked upon with a mouse to activate them or to describe their actions.
		Hyperbole does not enforce any particular hypertext or information management model, but instead allows you to organize your information in large or small chunks as you see fit.
	www.dcs.gla.ac.uk /idom/irlist/new/1992/92-ix-4-100/Announcement_of_first_public_release_of_Hyperbole,_V2.02..html (1222 words)

	Untitled Normal Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Goal: Students can identify hyperboles and determine when to use it in their writing.
		Focus: Identifying the use of hyperboles (Hyperbole (hi-pur'be-le) n.
		Hyperbole is a form of speech that could be described as 'extravagant exaggeration'.
	volweb.utk.edu /Schools/bedford/harrisms/10lesson.htm (247 words)

	Bible Matters--Hyperbole (exaggeration for effect) in the Bible and its Problems
		One of these figures of speech is hyperbole, to exaggerate or amplify something for effect.
		A hurdle few Christians ever jump in their understanding of Scriptures is the fact that the original languages of the Bible contain ever 200 different forms of figures of speech, many of which have NOT been brought into the modern languages in which most people read the scriptures.
		One more problem with hyperbole and the Bible is that many of them deal with times and a culture with which we are no longer familiar.
	www.tentmaker.org /Biblematters/hyperbole2.htm (3607 words)

	Info: (hyperbole.info) Top
		Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 BeOpen.com Hyperbole is available for use, modification, and distribution under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 1 as published by the Free Software Foundation, with all rights and responsibilities thereof.
		Hyperbole hyperbuttons not only can link to static information but can perform arbitrary actions through the use of button types written in a single, highly interactive language.
		Hyperbole adds all of this power to your written documents, e-mail, news articles, contact management, outlines and requirements documents, directory listings, and much more.
	www.cims.nyu.edu /cgi-systems/info2html?(hyperbole.info)Top (605 words)

	Hyperbole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hyperbole (overstatement) is a type of figurative language that depends on intentional overstatement.
		Litotes is a form of irony using understatement, its opposite is hyperbole.
		Poetry is piece of literature written by a poet in meter or verse expressing various emotions which are expressed by the use of variety of techniques including metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia.
	www.types-of-poetry.org.uk /68-hyperbole.htm (344 words)

	Language Log: For the millionth time, it's not hyperbole
		Hyperbole takes a claim and exaggerates it, so that if the hyperbolic version were true, the original claim would be true a fortiori.
		If he had said that parents forget what going to the theater is like, that would be hyperbole (they don't forget, it just becomes a tiny bit unfamiliar as far as recent experience is concerned).
		And if the hyperbolic claim were true — if they completely forgot what happens in theaters — then the underlying claim would be all the truer.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/003265.html (791 words)

	HYPERBOLIC, HYPERBOLE. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
		Hyperbole (hei-PUHR-buh-lee) is exaggeration for effect, a locution that exaggerates or makes an extravagant statement: I’m so tired, I’m just dead.
		To be hyperbolic (the adjective, pronounced hei-puhr-BAHL-ik) in speech is a characteristic frequently attributed to American enthusiasm, and it can indeed make discourse lively and interesting.
		But few peaks stand out in a mountain range full of peaks, and too much hyperbole is like shouting all your conversations.
	www.bartleby.com /68/61/3061.html (122 words)

	Bible Matters--Hyperbole
		Hyperbole, one of over 200 different types of figures of speech found in the Bible, is exaggeration for effect.
		It is not too difficult to determine that this is a hyperbole, an exaggeration.
		However, here is a hyperbole that the average Bible reader may miss and formulate doctrine from which may end up being harmful to themselves and others.
	www.tentmaker.org /Biblematters/hyperbole.htm (795 words)

	Vol 33 No 3, July - September 1995 Page 16
		Hyperbole and lies are very similar in outward appearance, both being the result of exaggeration.
		In hyperbole, exaggeration is used under the precondition that the fact is known or can be deduced by the listener.
		Hyperbole depends on the existence of the L->F->L->E structure while a lie rests its existence on the absence of this structure.
	exchanges.state.gov /forum/vols/vol33/no3/p16.htm (1667 words)

	Hyperbole User Manual - Introduction
		Hyperbole is free software; you can use it, redistribute it and/or modify it without fee under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
		Hyperbole (pronounced Hi-purr-boe-lee) is an open, efficient, programmable information management and hypertext system.
		Hyperbole may be used simply for browsing through documents pre-configured with Hyperbole buttons, in which case, one can safely ignore most of the information in this manual.
	theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca /gnu/hyperbole/hyperbole_1.html (838 words)

	Overview -- /Hyperbole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A Hyperbole user need learn only three new concepts, all of which are quite simple and familiar to a user of any hypertext system.
		Hyperbole's collaboration facility can be used as a rapid broadcast mechanism in such instances.
		Hyperbole is written in Lisp, which means that the entirety of the Lisp language is available for extending its functionality.
	www.bilkent.edu.tr /pub/Products/Hyperbole/Overview.html (2694 words)

	Can we stop with the word HYPERBOLE? PLEASE? - Graffë Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hyperbole is a literary device meant to make text less boring, like simile or metaphor.
		It's hyperbole because you don't expect anyone to take you seriously, which is achieved in the most typical way which is to apply an obvious exaggeration.
		Hyperbole is one of those words people use to make themselves sound vocabulicious.
	www.graffe.com /forums/showthread.php?t=34848 (873 words)

	Hyperbole Software, UnLtd. - Home Page
		Hyperbole Software, UnLtd is a complete solutions provider of machine and human interface problems.
		Hyperbole Software can solve your engineering problems in applied mathematics, robotics, industrial automation and CAD systems.
		Hyperbole Creations can provide you with elegant, cost effective, intuitively usable websites and user interfaces.
	www.hyperbole-software.com (258 words)

	Hyperbole User Manual - Hook Variables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hyperbole provides a number of hook variables that allow you to adjust its basic operations to meet your own needs, without requiring you to change the code for those operations.
		Hyperbole uses it to highlight any buttons within files when run under any NEXTSTEP or X window system-based versions of GNU Emacs.
		Hyperbole mail and news facilities also utilize a number of external hook variables.
	theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca /gnu/hyperbole/hyperbole_60.html (412 words)

	Glossary of Literary Terms
		From the Greek for "overcasting," hyperbole is a figure of speech that is a grossly exaggerated description or statement.
		Hyperbole is a fundamental part of both burlesque writing and the “tall tales” from Western America.
		Hyperbole is even a part of our day-to-day speech: ‘You’ve grown like a bean sprout’ or ‘I’m older than the hills.’ Hyperbole is used to increase the effect of a description, whether it is metaphoric or comic.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm (9849 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/hyperbole
		Even allowing for Wylie's hyperbole, his words seemed to me far removed from reality.
		Those were the days when I still liked hyperbole, before an excess of real drama killed my taste for the manufactured kind.
		Hyperbole comes from Greek hyperbole, "excess," from hyperballein, "to exceed," from hyper, "beyond" + ballein, "to throw."
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2001/01/09.html (61 words)

	LUKE 14:26: HATE OR HYPERBOLE?
		If we are still in doubt that hyperbole is a legitimate way to express truth, we can turn to the example of Jesus.
		If we realize how frequently hyperbole is used in the Bible, we can avoid being timid when we come upon examples of it.
		Hyperbole is also a way of grabbing a reader’s or listener’s attention.
	www.equip.org /free/JAL014.htm (1546 words)

	Hyperbole User Manual
		Although the entire Emacs environment is available to Hyperbole, we do not speak of this as part of the Hyperbole environment.
		Koutliner, the Hyperbole outliner, is a powerful autonumbering outliner with permanent hypertext anchors for easy hyperlinking and view specs for rapid outline view alteration.
		The Assist Key, typically bound to the shift-right mouse key, explains what a Hyperbole button does or scrolls the current line to the bottom of the window when pressed at the end of a line.
	www.delorie.com /gnu/docs/hyperbole/hyperbole_71.html (1556 words)

	Hyperbole (65) at The Word Nerds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Howard and Dave explore the etymologies of “hyperbole” and “exaggeration”; and discuss why speakers tend to exaggerate.
		Understatement, the flip-side of hyperbole: meiosis and litotes (28:09)
		Charles, it is very interesting to me that both ends of the political spectrum in Europe in the 1920s and 30s tried to lay a claim on the idea of “socialism.” I guess the “all for one, one for all” mentality was generally pretty strong back then.
	thewordnerds.org /2006/06/04/hyperbole-65 (728 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for hyperbole
		Andrew Marvell employed hyperbole throughout To His Coy Mistress : An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each
		See separate articles on antithesis ; apostrophe ; conceit ; hyperbole ; irony ; litotes ; metaphor ; metonymy ; paradox ; personification ; simile ; and synecdoche
		He traveled on the Continent and in 1596-97 accompanied the earl of Essex on his expeditions to Cádiz
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=hyperbole (381 words)

	SOSEnews: HYPERBOLE:epiphany Archives
		The more than 20 songs featured in HYPERBOLE: epiphany, selected from over forty local musicians and music groups, are an eclectic mix ranging in style from originally composed chamber orchestra pieces, to rock, punk and the wildly experimental.
		Hyperbole blends music and visceral imagery together to create an entertainment event more akin in style to a live music video, a form in which music is used to convey the story’s message and themes.
		Hyperbole does not rely on dialogue to convey its messages; it instead uses mask work, music, puppetry and visceral imagery as storytelling-tools.
	www.sonofsemele.org /archives/news/hyperboleepiphany (1188 words)

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