hyperbole Synonyms

exaggeration overstatement sensationalism rhetoric puffery pomposity tabloid journalism excess metaphor malapropism magnification litotes inflation simile stretch typification mountain out of molehill tall talk purple prose overemphasis fish story big talk overkill overestimation figure of speech rhetorical device hype typology hypertrophy hyperboloid elaboration distortion coloring caricature auxesis apostrophe apologue antonomasia amplification allegory aggrandizement embellishment embroidering embroidery hyperbolism hyperbola grandiloquence extravagance expression expansion