figure of speech vs hyperbole

figure of speech and hyperbole both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

figure of speech (noun)	hyperbole (noun)
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense	extravagant exaggeration

figure of speech vs hyperbole

figure of speech and hyperbole both are nouns.

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