What is another word for "hyperbole"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "hyperbole": adumbrate, adumbration, allegorical, allegorize, allegory, allude, allusion, allusive, anagoge, anagogical, analogy, apologue, application, apply, association, catachresis, catachrestical, colloquial, colloquialism, employ, enallage, exaggeration, express, fable, figurative, figure, forth, image, imagery, ironical, irony, metalepsis, metaphor, metaphorical, metonymy, oneself, parable, parabolic, personification, personify.

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