Short, convenient, incredibly effective and natural when used properly, the phrases we’d like to teach you in this post are meant to elevate your English conversations to a new level. So, read on and converse more naturally than ever before.
Hyperbole /hʌɪˈpəːbəli/ is a way of speaking or writing that makes something sound better, more exciting, or more dangerous than it really is. In other words, it’s an exaggeration or overstatement. For example: 1. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. 2. She cried a river of tears. 3. He’s as tall as a mountain.
An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. For example, deafening silence, bittersweet and amazingly awful.
