Hyperbole Examples

Hyperbole is one of the easiest of figures of speech. Wondering what a hyperbole is? Well, hyperbole is nothing but the exaggeration of any statement. The statement is made only for a dramatic effect, however, it does increase the beauty of speech. That is why we see the use of hyperbole in almost every genre of literature. One of the classic hyperbole examples is, 'I called you a million times', here the literal meaning is not intended, no one actually calls a million times however, it is used to stress the fact that the person had called a maximum number of times. The following are hyperbole sentence examples followed by hyperbole poem examples, it is actually only one poem but it is quite long so can easily be considered as many poems, and a hyperbole!

Hyperbole Examples List

• They ran like greased lightning
• He's got tons of money
• Her brain is the size of a pea
• He is older than the hills
• I'm so hungry I could eat a goose with its beak!
• I have told you a million times not to lie!
• You snore louder than a freight train
• I have seen this river so wide it had only one bank
• She is older than the hills
• That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I was riding on a dinosaur
• If he talks to me in front of everyone, I will die of embarrassment
• Our new school is large enough to have its own zip code
• My backpack weighs a ton!
• I'm so busy trying to accomplish ten million things at once
• She is a hundred feet tall
• I will die if she asks me to sing in front of everyone
• He is as big as a grown elephant!
• His smile was a mile wide
• Her eyes were as wide as saucers
• It's raining cats and dogs
• He was as big as an elephant!
• It is going to take a zillion years to get through Medical School
• He's older than the Harappan civilization
• There are millions of other things to do
• Running faster than the speed of light
• It took light years for this to work
• I waited in line for centuries
• I had to walk fifteen miles up-hill both ways, in snow five feet deep
• If I don't get these jeans, I will die!
• I have a million things to do today
• The whole world was staring at me
• The package took forever to arrive in the mail
• I had a ton of homework
• It took him two seconds to drive here
• Her smile was a mile wide
• I've told you a million times don't exaggerate
• His teeth were blinding white
• My car is a million years old
• I don't have two cents to rub together
• I told you a thousand times!
• Maybe I'll do it in a million years
• I was so embarrassed, I thought I might die
• I am so tired I could sleep for a year
• The blue bells of the sky were broken by the wind
• The mountain of paperwork weighed heavily on the teacher's desk
• The ancient castle was so big that it took a week to walk from one end to the other
• The leaves danced in the summer breeze
• After Mindy ate her mother's garlic bread, she could singe any one's eyebrows off with her breath
• Sarah's hair was a velvet black curtain against her back
• The engagement ring he gave her was so small that a magnifying glass was needed to see it
• He was so skinny that when he turned sideways it looked like a tin sheet
• The oak tree's limbs stretched in the sunlight
• My mother's lecture on good manners lasted two weeks one afternoon

A Hyperbole Poem

Kubla Khan

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me
That with music loud and long
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Read more on:

• Examples of Metaphors
• Examples of Similes
• Examples of Alliteration
• Examples of Onomatopoeia

These were some of the examples of hyperbole. You can also refer to examples of hyperboles for more help. So now that you know what exactly a hyperbole is, you can search for the use of a hyperbole in everyday language itself!