Look up exaggeration in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Exaggeration is the representation of something as more extreme or dramatic than it is, intentionally...
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Vertical exaggeration (VE) is a scale that is used in raised-relief maps, plans and technical drawings (cross section perspectives), in order to emphasize...
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Exaggeration postcards, also known as tall tale postcards, were postcards popular throughout North America, especially in the Great Plains region, during...
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Twelve basic principles of animation (redirect from Exaggeration (animation))
of exaggeration, employed by Disney, was to remain true to reality, just presenting it in a wilder, more extreme form. Other forms of exaggeration can...
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Mark Twain (redirect from The report of my death was an exaggeration)
this by his short visits to the country. The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Twain Twain lived in his later years at 14 West 10th Street in Manhattan...
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Hyperbole (/haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ ; adj. hyperbolic /ˌhaɪpərˈbɒlɪk/ ) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes...
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social commentary that is anything but funny. Satire often uses irony or exaggeration to expose faults in society or individuals that influence social ideology...
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Dio's figures for the demographic consequences of the Bar Kokhba War: Exaggeration or reliable account?". Journal of Roman Archaeology. 34 (2): 585–607...
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elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some tall tales are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away")...
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Chinese agricultural productivity are considered unreliable, due to exaggeration of production at subsidiary government levels. Much of China has a climate...
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