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exaggeration
has definitions from the field of rhetoric
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) extravagant exaggeration
Synonyms Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings , he wrote on_the_one_hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on_the_other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble , Arkansas , where no one had ever seen a piano ; and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor , `` The_Big_Bear_of_Arkansas '' , in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature . |
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[ noun ] making to seem more important than it really is
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