HYPERBOLE


 * HYPERBOLE**

A figure of speech involving exaggeration.

Example from Shakespeare's //Macbeth// Act 2, scene 2:

Will all great Neptune's ocean this blood Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.  This excerpt has hyperbole because it does not take a whole ocean to wash the blood off of Macbeth's hand. Also, the blood would not turn a whole ocean red.    This picture is a hyperbole because it is exaggerating the greatness of a hyperbole.   