Hyperbole
Hyperbole (hy-per'-bo-lee) is exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. “He is the bluntest wooer in Christendom.” Henry VI Pt 3, 3.2.36.
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Hyperbole
You do not meet a man but frowns
Read the QuoteFirst Gentleman
You do not meet a man but frowns. Our bloods
No more obey the heavens than our courtiers’
Still seem as does the King’s.Ellipsis
Second Gentleman
But what’s the matter?
Howsoe’er ’tis strange,
Or that the negligence may well be laughed at,
Yet is it true,
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Therefore I pray you lead me to the caskets
Read the QuoteTherefore I pray you lead me to the caskets
To try my fortune. By this scimitar
That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince,
That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,Anaphora
I would Alliterationo’erstare the sternest eyes that look,
Outbrave the heart most daring on the Earth,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
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Come you hither to me, Master Tapster
Read the QuoteEscalus
Come you hither to me, Master Tapster. What’s your
name, Master Tapster?
Pompey
Pompey.
Escalus
What else?
Pompey
Bum, sir.
Does your Worship mean to geld and
splay all the youth of the city?
Escalus
Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing
about you,
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Now tell me, madam, do you love your children?
Read the QuoteKing Edward
Now tell me, madam, do you love your children?
Lady Grey
Ay, full as dearly as I love myself.
Anadiplosis & EpistropheKing Edward
And would you not do much to do them good?
Lady Grey
To do them good I would sustain some harm.
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I hope all will be well
Read the QuoteOphelia
I hope all will be well. We must be patient,
but I cannot choose but weep to think they would
lay him i’ th’ cold ground. My brother shall know of
it. And so I thank you for your good counsel. Come,
my coach! Good night, ladies, good night, sweet
ladies, good night, good night. She exits.
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This is another prisoner that I saved
Read the QuoteProvost
This is another prisoner that I saved
Who should have died when Claudio lost his head,
As like almost to Claudio as himself.
He unmuffles Claudio.
Dear Isabel,
I have a motion much imports your good,
Whereto if you’ll a willing ear incline,
What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.—