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Hyperbole in Satire
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This bag weighs a ton.
Magnifies the weight of the bag to satirize situations where people overstate difficulties or inconveniences.
He's running faster than the wind.
Emphasizes the impossible speed to ridicule unrealistic expectations or to point out the absurdity in exaggerations.
I have a mountain of paperwork.
Amplifies workload to critique bureaucratic inefficiency or to hyperbolize the drudgery of clerical work.
He's got a smile that stretches from ear to ear.
Exaggerates happiness to critique forced positivity or to illustrate the absurdity of insincere expressions.
I slept like a rock.
Exaggerates the soundness of sleep to mock unrealistic portrayals of restfulness or to criticise the dismissal of insomnia issues.
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
Exaggerates the speaker's hunger to mock or criticize gluttony or indicate urgent need for change.
If I don't get coffee, I'm going to die.
Exaggerates dependency on coffee to satirize modern society's addiction to stimulants and the dramatization of needs.
She can light up a room with her smile.
Overstates the effect of someone's charm to lampoon superficial flattery or to highlight excessive idealization.
He has an ocean of knowledge.
Exaggerates the extent of someone's wisdom to mock intellectual pretence or to satirize assumptions of omniscience.
She's older than the hills.
Exaggerates age to ridicule society's obsession with youth and mortality or to poke fun at someone's outdated views.
I've told you a million times.
Uses numeric exaggeration to mock repetitive warnings or advice, highlighting their frequency or the listener's ignorance.
I died of embarrassment.
Intensifies the feeling of embarrassment to comically underscore how insignificant situations are overdramatized.
He could talk the legs off a chair.
Enhances talkativeness to a ridiculous degree to mock excessively chatty or persuasive people or to criticize verbosity.
It's going to take forever to finish this.
Overstates the length of time needed to complete a task to critique procrastination or to mock inefficient processes.
A flood of tears.
Amplifies the act of crying to lampoon emotional overreactions or to ridicule melodramatic behavior.
Every person in the world was there.
Exaggerates attendance to satirize the tendency to overstate the significance or popularity of an event.
He's as skinny as a toothpick.
Overemphasizes thinness to critique society's standards for physical appearance or to mock unrealistic body images.
The wait for the new movie felt like an eternity.
Exaggerates duration to mock impatience or entitlement felt towards entertainment or to illustrate consumerist culture's desires.
You could've knocked me over with a feather.
Emphasizes the ease of causing surprise to lampoon an individual's gullibility or to criticize overreactions.
The news spread like wildfire.
Compares spreading information to an uncontrollable force to satirize the rapid dissemination of gossip or misinformation.
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