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Webcomic and comic book by Allie Brosh
Hyperbole and a Half is a webcomic and blog written and illustrated by Allie Brosh. Started in 2009, Brosh often mixes text and illustrations to tell
Hyperbole_and_a_Half
American blogger, writer and comic artist (born 1985)
writer, and comic artist best known for Hyperbole and a Half, a blog and webcomic she created in 2009. Brosh grew up in small towns across the U.S. and eventually
Allie_Brosh
Topics referred to by the same term
Savage song Alot, Madhya Pradesh, India Alot, imaginary creature in Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Alot, store formerly known as Staples Argentina Allot
Alot
Type of award for winning various contests
movements. Internet comedy blogger Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half has suggested her fans wear a brown ribbon to raise awareness of her blog, as well
Brown_ribbon
American animator (born 1976)
Such a Beautiful Day as one of the influences behind his film, Train Dreams. Hertzfeldt influenced many webcomics including Hyperbole and a Half, xkcd
Don_Hertzfeldt
Public university in Missoula, Montana, US
author/illustrator of Hyperbole and a Half Eduardo Chirinos, Peruvian poet, associate professor at UM Anthony Cronin, Irish writer and poet, visiting lecturer
University_of_Montana
American publisher of books and stationery
Kings County Distillery: Whiskey Notes, Hyperbole and a Half, Daily Dishonesty, and The Forest Feast gift and stationery collections. Abrams Press publishes
Abrams_Books
for Team Katusha–Alpecin Allie Brosh, author, Hyperbole and a Half Pat Cashman, comedian, television and radio personality John Chambers, CEO of Cisco
List of people from Bend, Oregon
List_of_people_from_Bend,_Oregon
webcomics and later published hard copies of their work, such as Kate Beaton for Hark! A Vagrant!, and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half. Others, like
Women_comics_creators
Use of comics in medical education and patient care
Brosh, Allie (October 29, 2013). Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened. Gallery
Graphic_medicine
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh August 15 — Drive: the scifi comic by Dave Kellett September 4 — Guilded Age by T Campbell, Erica Henderson and Phil
2009_in_webcomics
1987 book by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz
wealth, ethos and dealmaking rhetoric. The book coined the phrase "truthful hyperbole" describing "an innocent form of exaggeration—and... a very effective
The_Art_of_the_Deal
Shorthand to convey tone or intent
of denoting irony in print media, and so several irony punctuation marks were proposed. The percontation point (⸮; a reversed question mark) was proposed
Tone_indicator
French literary movement
periphrases, hyperbole, and puns on the theme of gallant love. The movement was similar to the Italian marinism, Spanish culteranismo, and English euphuism
Précieuses
have been included, there is always the possibility of inaccuracy or hyperbole. A single vehicle can be sold concurrently under several nameplates in different
List of best-selling automobiles
List_of_best-selling_automobiles
1998 video game
The X-Files Game is a 1998 interactive film developed by HyperBole Studios and published by Fox Interactive for Windows, Mac OS and PlayStation. The game
The_X-Files_Game
2026 Indian film by Sriram Raghavan
vengeance-fuelled hyperbole that results when Indians run into Pakistanis. Scene after scene reveals Raghavan’s efforts to put his own stamp on a genre that
Ikkis
2015 single by Fifth Harmony
in love with a mischievous person, using "monster" as a hyperbole to describe their personality. The song failed to chart in domestic and international
I'm_in_Love_with_a_Monster
Figure of speech of implicit comparison
personification, hyperbole, allusions, and idioms." One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature comes from the "All the world's a stage"
Metaphor
King of Iberia (440–502)
Vakhtang is a subject of the 8th or 11th century vita attributed to Juansher, which intertwines history and legend into an epic narrative, hyperbolizing Vakhtang's
Vakhtang_I
American Founding Father and polymath (1706–1790)
from the skies and the scepter from the tyrants.) Historian Friedrich Christoph Schlosser remarked at the time, with ample hyperbole, that "Such was
Benjamin_Franklin
Natural number
Septuagint. In Islamic history and in Islamic interpretation the number 70 or 72 is most often and generally hyperbole for an infinite amount: There are
70_(number)
1846 book by Herman Melville
his own experiences with wide reading and research. He also employs hyperbole and humor. Starting in the 1930s, scholars in the Melville revival questioned
Typee
2026 studio album by Slayyyter
(March 27, 2026). "Slayyyter 'Wor$t Girl in America' Review: Hysteria and Hyperbole". Slant Magazine. Retrieved March 29, 2026. "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart"
Worst_Girl_in_America
American political scientist (born 1953)
Finkelstein's "abrasiveness, righteous anger, hyperbole, distortions and unwarranted generalizations", and to his generalizations about West Bank Palestinians:
Norman_Finkelstein
is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and it's a very effective
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
Second election of Donald Trump
Retrieved September 25, 2024. Chidi, George (August 3, 2024). "Name-calling and hyperbole: Trump continues fear-mongering fest at Georgia rally". The Guardian
2024 United States presidential election
2024_United_States_presidential_election
Common words or phrases with non-literal meanings
(e.g., "faster than a speeding bullet"); or hyperbole, which exaggerates an image beyond truthfulness (e.g., "more powerful than a locomotive"). Idioms
English-language_idioms
2010 South Korean action thriller film
violence. But that's the Korean way, and Na nails down the bottom feeder realism while slouching toward video-game hyperbole". "The Yellow Sea". British Board
The_Yellow_Sea_(film)
Memoir by Brentley Frazer
Morning Herald makes a subtle reference to the books inherent promiscuity, dangerous living, drug taking and possible hyperbole, writing that "Frazer
Scoundrel_Days:_A_Memoir
Far-right authoritarian political ideology
official foreign policy positions commonly used rhetorical ideological hyperbole to justify its actions, although during Dino Grandi's tenure as Italy's
Fascism
wannabe dictator. That's not hyperbole. Countless authoritarian experts have raised alarms, comparing Trump's rhetoric and plans to those of 20th-century
Donald_Trump_and_fascism
Sanskrit genre of literary poetry
speech such as metaphors, similes, and hyperbole to create its characteristic emotional effects. The result is a short lyrical work, court epic, narrative
Kāvya
Ivorian footballer (born 1978)
win trophies. Others inspire people. It is not hyperbole to say Didier Drogba did both and helped to end a civil war. — Carl Anka for the BBC, Didier Drogba
Didier_Drogba
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
YouTube channel, which he defended as hyperbole. He relaunched it as a webcomic on his Locals website one month later and continued to be active on social
Scott_Adams
American lyricist and librettist (1928–2023)
Since only half the book falls within the category of how-to I'm glad to report that this advice is stick-to-the-ribs solid. No hyperbole. No gratuitous
Tom_Jones_(lyricist)
1969 British film by Ronald Neame
characters. Though the mixture of good and harm that the eccentric teacher provokes does emerge from all the hyperbole, one is left with the impression of
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film)
The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(film)
2013 film by Jeremy Leven
RogerEbert.com gave it a half star and said that "[the film] may be the worst romantic comedy I have ever seen, and this is not hyperbole". According to Sheri
Girl_on_a_Bicycle_(film)
Annual book award
The Goodreads Choice Awards is a yearly award program, first launched on Goodreads in 2009. Winners are determined by users voting on books that Goodreads
Goodreads_Choice_Awards
Latin epic poem by Virgil
meter and stress is also important. Virgil also incorporated such poetic devices as alliteration, onomatopoeia, synecdoche, assonance, and hyperbole. Furthermore
Aeneid
Russian epic poem
fantasy or hyperbole. Byliny originate from the times of Kievan Rus', but had only survived in northern Russia by the time they were collected. In a strict
Bylina
2019 Indian film by Farhad Samji
of India. Retrieved 3 May 2025. "Housefull 4 movie review: A silly, exhausting hyperbole of a farce". The Indian Express. Retrieved 3 May 2025. Hungama
Housefull_4
Ancient Assyrian city
of Nineveh record that Nineveh was "turned into mounds and heaps", but this is literary hyperbole. The complete destruction of Nineveh has traditionally
Nineveh
1980 studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
wacky (yet still traditional) blues hyperbole, Doc At The Radar Station displays throughout Beefheart's own voice: a coarse, incredibly intense speak-singing
Doc_at_the_Radar_Station
mainly hyperbole. 1 Thessalonians 4:3–4 reads: “What God wants is for you all to be holy. He wants you to keep away from fornication [porneia], and each
Christian views on masturbation
Christian_views_on_masturbation
"Trump's world is binary, divided into class acts and total losers." Trump often makes use of hyperbole to illustrate his points in his works. In other
Bibliography_of_Donald_Trump
American actress (born 1949)
Star Walk. Retrieved September 15, 2026. Generally considered, without hyperbole, to be the world's greatest living actress Johnson, Brian D. (December
Meryl_Streep
American singer, songwriter, writer, actor and director
some of it hyperbole but not all of it completely unfounded. Half-Piaf, half-Hemingway… singing and brawling. Wrestling in public with quite a few demons
Adele_Bertei
2024 film by Jeff Fisher
The actors' performances, while stilted and clunky at first, improve over time as they embrace the hyperbole." Leslie Felperin from The Guardian gave
The_Image_of_You_(film)
Natural number
language as a metaphor for a very large number, as in "Not in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or a hyperbole, as in "I've walked a million
1,000,000
Roman noblewoman, full-sister of Augustus
Octavian), the half-sister of Octavia the Elder, and the fourth wife of Mark Antony. She was also the great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina
Octavia_the_Younger
2010 film by Edgar Wright
combine utter banality with superhero hyperbole, [and] Wright, who is British, has taken it on and won. [The film] lives and breathes the style of the original
Scott_Pilgrim_vs._the_World
Berlin building housing the Chancellor of Germany, 1878–1945
Москва: Политиздат, 1988, pp 216–217, translated in Maks Ostrovski, The Hyperbole of the World Order, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, pp 144–145. Hans-Ernst
Reich_Chancellery
2024 studio album by Taylor Swift
narratives and use devices like hyperbole or melodrama for impact. "Fortnight" details a two-week-long romance that entails jealousy and murderous thoughts, while
The_Tortured_Poets_Department
Men's national cricket team
World Series Cricket, he was sacked, and replaced by Mike Brearley. Brearley's team showed again the hyperbole that is often spoken when one team dominates
England_cricket_team
Canadian-American psycholinguist (born 1954)
book never runs low on hubris or hyperbole". The book's topic, the English past tense, is in Yang's view unglamorous, and Pinker's attempts at compromise
Steven_Pinker
list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from H to O. See also the lists from A to G and from P to Z. Some
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/H–O
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/H–O
Farcical comedy play by Oscar Wilde
for her use of hyperbole and rhetorical extravagance as for her disconcerting opinions. In contrast, the discourse of Dr Chasuble and Miss Prism is distinguished
The Importance of Being Earnest
The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest
2010 sports drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures
being hyperbolic: "My hyperbole in the Secretariat review was supposed to be funny, and also to provoke a response." Bill Christine, a former long-time racing
Secretariat_(film)
Television station in Terre Haute, Indiana
technically accurate, became a source of amusement on Comedy Central's The Daily Show because of its use of hyperbole and techniques reminiscent of political
WTWO
2004 studio album by James Blunt
prey to many a cliché or hyperbole. Comes from the UK, serves in the army then makes an album of movingly sincere ballads which make a huge impression
Back_to_Bedlam
2000 book by Gwenda Blair
chutzpah, cruelty, vulgarity and hucksterism. And she catches him in his lies, or what Trump himself calls truthful hyperbole. Margolick wrote that Blair's
The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire
The_Trumps:_Three_Generations_That_Built_an_Empire
Early Zionist retelling of the siege of Masada
Masada has been embellished and wrapped in hyperbole, and they themselves have been deemed freedom fighters, resisters, and warriors who retained their
Masada_myth
Bangladeshi cricketer
June 2015). "Taskin Ahmed: A tall, fast and handful poster-boy". The Indian Express. But the hyperbole — and it's not a hyperbole by much; he is 6'2″ — is
Taskin_Ahmed
1999 children's book by Julia Donaldson
elements of surprise and repetition in the story; six to eight year olds will enjoy the rhyme and rhythm of the text and the story's hyperbole. As for visual
The_Gruffalo
Series of wildfires in California, United States
Love & Hyperbole, originally due for release on January 17, 2025, with a different song due to the wildfires. Los Angeles County Supervisor and Los Angeles
January 2025 Southern California wildfires
January_2025_Southern_California_wildfires
2015 video game
so as not to distinguish by gender. The game was designed to be a lighthearted hyperbole of the 1980s action film genre. Greenwood noted the difficulties
Broforce
Series of protests in California, U.S.
2025. Retrieved June 12, 2025. This is more than typical Trumpian hyperbole. There's a long tradition of autocratic-style leaders creating or exaggerating
June 2025 Los Angeles protests against mass deportation
June_2025_Los_Angeles_protests_against_mass_deportation
June 2026). "Rivage is a time loop puzzle game where something's gone terribly wrong, power's at a premium, and your salvation's a mysterious arcade machine"
List of graphic adventure games
List_of_graphic_adventure_games
Elementary particle involved with rest mass
contributed to wider awareness and interest, many scientists feel the name is inappropriate since it is sensational hyperbole and misleads readers; the particle
Higgs_boson
False or maliciously exaggerated claims about Muslims and Islam
Half-Truths, and Mischaracterizations Spread". migrationpolicy.org. Retrieved 2 February 2025. Zine, Jasmin (23 October 2023). "How Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian
Islamophobic_trope
Purposeful use of language
"From up on the hill, all the humans in the valley look like ants".) Hyperbole: deliberate exaggeration, used for dramatic or persuasive effect. (Example:
Literary_device
Expression associated with political misinformation established in 2017
Art of the Deal. In that book, "truthful hyperbole" was described as "an innocent form of exaggeration—and ... a very effective form of promotion". The
Alternative_facts
English language word
that the phrase in which it appears is to be taken metaphorically or as a hyperbole. This use of like is sometimes regarded as adverbial, as like is often
Like
seizing on scare tactics, falsehoods and racial stereotypes. Chidi, George (August 3, 2024). "Name-calling and hyperbole: Trump continues fear-mongering fest
Rhetoric_of_Donald_Trump
American sportscaster (born 1951)
manner and measured use of hyperbole, particularly in banter with his sportscasting partners. He livens up many broadcasts with a few Hawaiian and Japanese
Jon_Miller
tightly controlled venues, and are noted for hyperbole, itemized lists of accomplishments, overwhelmingly positive proclamations, and esoteric insider language
Scientology_controversies
Unpleasant, abnormal sense of touch
al. hypothesized that dynamic mechanical allodynia (DMA) might be the hyperbole of dynamic mechanical dysesthesia (DMD), mediated by peripheral nerves
Dysesthesia
2013 novel by Dan Brown
expressed approval of the book's plot, writing: "Brown's fusion of gothic hyperbole with a pedant's tour-guide deliberately restrains the imagination through
Inferno_(Brown_novel)
2026 drama film by Ilya Khrzhanovsky
paid in Soviet roubles. A total of 40,000 costume elements were produced or acquired for filming. The Institute was "a hyperbole, a Platonic idea, the artistic
Dau_(film)
Place in Greece
even a trace anymore" (Ἄσκρης μὲν οὐκέτ' ἐστὶν οὐδ' ἴχνος). This apparently was a hyperbole, for in the 2nd century CE, Pausanias could report that a single
Ascra
Person who participates regularly in a sport
semantics or a superlative, hyperbole. The 100-metre dash is the foundational short-distance event in modern athletics, functioning as a primary global
Athlete
American left-wing political Facebook page and website
left-oriented, and built around clickbait and hyperbole. Comments to posts shared on Occupy Democrats tend to be hallmarked by "greater anger and incivility"
Occupy_Democrats
1970 studio album by the Stooges
claimed that, although saying so "risks hyperbole", Fun House is "one of the greatest rock & roll records of all time" and that, "as great as they were, the
Fun_House_(The_Stooges_album)
Superorder of cephalopod molluscs
length and breadth," which is taken as an ill harbinger, frightening Starbuck; this description may be ascribed to poetic license or hyperbole, but naturalists
Squid
1984 concert film by U2
that a band can totally transform a scene—especially one with a stage show that boasts charisma as its only special effect—but it's not hyperbole to say
U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky
U2_Live_at_Red_Rocks:_Under_a_Blood_Red_Sky
Term used to describe a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century
German and Jan Andrzej Morsztyn's in Polish. In addition, Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" is given as a famous example of the use of hyperbole common
Metaphysical_poets
American former singer (born 1967)
(February 3, 2002). "'Best of Both Worlds' Is One Album Title That May Not Be Hyperbole". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 3, 2022. Reid, Shaheem (May 21
R._Kelly
Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
2026. Retrieved 29 May 2026. greatest?, Football is always awash with hyperbole, but whatever happened to those compared with Brazil’s. "The Next....
Neymar
Marvel Comics fictional character
speculated that it gave him a hatred of vampires, though this may simply be hyperbole on his part. The brothel's sex workers drove off Frost once they realized
Blade_(character)
1973 musical
Desiree Armfeldt"—is clichéd hyperbole. By figuratively rolling her eyes at the hype, Peters gives us a rich, warm and comedically human Desiree, which
A_Little_Night_Music
Attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (1903–1945)
the onlookers, and listeners to Grossdeutsche Rundfunk ("Greater German Radio"). In his half-hour oration, Hess was not short on hyperbole: At this time
Georg_Elser
Video game and media franchise
Writing for Destructoid, James Stephanie Sterling said: "Hyperbole states that we haven't had a good Sonic game since Sonic Adventure, which really betrays
Sonic_the_Hedgehog
Bosnian Croat singer (born 2004)
that the lyric recontextualizes one of Zana's lyrics and is "a hyperbole, an intertextuality... Like a small threat, but not too serious." On 5 December
Marko_Bošnjak_(musician)
2024). "Alessia Cara shares tender '(Isn't It) Obvious' and announces new album 'Love & Hyperbole'". NME. Retrieved November 6, 2024. Davies, Hannah J.
2025_in_rhythm_and_blues
1854 book by Henry David Thoreau
understatement, hyperbole, personification, irony, satire, metonymy, synecdoche, and oxymorons, and he can shift from a scientific to a transcendental
Walden
2012–2014 trilogy by Peter Jackson
argued that the discussion had occurred in a climate of 'hyperbole and hysteria'. In February 2013, emails and documents released under orders of the Ombudsman
The_Hobbit_(film_series)
State park in Minnesota, United States
most commentators have dismissed this as hyperbole. These stories have led to speculation that the channel had a separate outlet into Lake Superior, or
Judge_C._R._Magney_State_Park
Thurston's hyperbolization theorem for Haken manifolds, showed that any prime, non-split alternating link is hyperbolic, i.e. the link complement has a hyperbolic
Alternating_knot
Relationships of Alexander the Great
alongside many other hyperbolized aspects of his character and achievements, and ancient historians did not distinguish between myth and history in the same
Personal relationships of Alexander the Great
Personal_relationships_of_Alexander_the_Great
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