figure of speech vs exaggeration

figure of speech and exaggeration both are nouns.

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

As nouns, exaggeration is a hyponym of figure of speech; that is, exaggeration is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than figure of speech:

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

Other hyponyms of figure of speech include conceit, irony, hyperbole, kenning, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, prosopopoeia, simile, synecdoche, zeugma, hypotyposis.

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

figure of speech vs exaggeration

figure of speech and exaggeration both are nouns.

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