HYPERBOLE

Pronounced High-per-boh-lee for some reason. Hyperbole is guff – stuff that advertising agents and politicians produce to dazzle us and make us think something is what it isn’t. The more current word, Hype, is a shortening of the word.

A load of exaggeration that is not really meant to be taken literally, but often is. Basically it is the art of selling.

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