exaggeration vs figure of speech

exaggeration and figure of speech both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
exaggeration	Yes	No	No	No
figure of speech	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, figure of speech is a hypernym of exaggeration; that is, figure of speech is a word with a broader meaning than exaggeration:

exaggeration: extravagant exaggeration
figure of speech: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Other hypernyms of exaggeration include figure, image, trope.

exaggeration (noun)	figure of speech (noun)
the act of making something more noticeable than usual	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
making to seem more important than it really is
extravagant exaggeration

exaggeration vs figure of speech

exaggeration and figure of speech both are nouns.

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