Concept in Definition ABC

A exaggeration it's a said, a comment, an event expressed or specified by someone and characterized by exceeding the limits of what is considered to be true or sensible.

Comment that is characterized by its excess and that can affect its veracity

Although the exaggeration will not necessarily be a lie, it will be quite similar to it, because for example the fact in question may have happened in reality but a series of questions, data, and conditions were added to it, involuntarily or deliberately, that did not They are real and are the product of exaggeration, with which the fact itself becomes completely distorted and does not respond to the truth of what happened.

There are situations in which exaggeration will be a serious problem because the truth of a fact is not being respected and then it can happen that a investigation, or that a person's reputation is damaged, with those sayings that were added to an event and that were not real.

There are people who have a natural inclination to exaggerate everything they see, and so every time they tell us something we will have to take the precautions of the case and corroborate for ourselves what really happened, it is not going to be a matter of believing something that has nothing to do with what happened.

In some contexts, exaggeration can be most harmless and just look like a anecdote of the way of being a person, but in some situations it can generate problems, because by not being sticking to the truth of something that happened or was said, someone's reputation could be affected.

Causes: making a profit, harming someone or showing what you are not

Exaggeration is a situation that occurs very frequently among human beings and can respond to various causes, among which are stand out: to obtain some benefit from a third party that is desired and that if this need is not exaggerated it may not be satisfied by the same; to harm a person in any way; with the desire to demonstrate something that is not really, for example not to lose a social position achieved, among other options.

There are many people who live in a general state of exaggeration and then everything that happens to them is exaggerated to the maximum with the mission of taking advantage or finding empathy in others.

Literary figure of exaggeration: hyperbole

The literary figures or rhetorical are procedures that are used at the behest of the literature as a way of adding emphasis to it, to give it greater expressiveness, let's say.

The mission is to say something in the most beautiful or attractive way possible, while there are several figures of this type, hyperbole being one of the most recognized and that has a special relationship with the concept of exaggeration that we occupies.

Then, at the urging of the Rhetoric, the exaggeration turns out to be a Figure of speech very popular, formally called hyperbole So what consists of premeditated exaggeration, either increasing or diminishing the truth of what is told, with the mission that the receiver of the message attributes a greater importance to the action that is related than to the quality that distinguishes the actionThat is, the idea is that the receiver does not forget or ignore in any way what is said, generate a great impact.

It is generally used to overly amplify a fact or event.

There are various kinds of hyperbole and many of them are widely used in our current language: “I called you a hundred times on the phone and you never attended to me, after that I decided to leave ”, let's agree that no one calls a hundred times, at most two or three times, in a situation like bliss.

Hyperbole is used especially in literature to highlight qualities, emotions, feelings, and it is done through the use of an intense, passionate tone in the words that are used.