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Exaggeration
EXAGGERATION

Definition: A statement or description that makes something seem larger, better, worse or more important than it really is; the act of making a statement like this.
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* All nine elements would be in.

* This is not about an act or art.


1. Purposeful, even if considered by some others as unnecessary.
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?*!*?*! (NO METAPHORS HERE!)


Quote: "Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blameable". - Hosea Ballou.



2. Statement contains only 'factual errors', whether these are grave and/or glaring.
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HALF-TRUTHS.


Quote: "We always weaken whatever we exaggerate". - Jean Francois De Laharpe.



3. Statement is 'beneficial' to the person or party making it - ego, to deliberately mislead, to gain an advantage, as a joke, etc. (connect to #1).
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'LIES'!


Quote: "Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we have to make a large discount from their statements before we can come to their real meaning". - Tyron Edwards.



4. No 'untruths' (to emphasize, connect to #2).

5. No ... (... wait,)
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'LIES'!!


Quotation: "There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying". - Josh Billings.



6. 'Incredible', yet somehow ...

7. 'Believable', but ... .
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'LIES' STILL.


Quote: "Ye are the salt of the earth; ye are the light of the world". - Christ's sermon on the Mount.



8. Doubtful ...,

9. Unproven ... .
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BLOODY LIES!!! (SEEN THROUGH.)


Quote: "Exaggeration is a department of lying". - Baltasar Gracian.

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