BEST TIP: DIFFERENT HYPERBOLES USED IN IELTS
Hyper bulls are often used by the native speakers in order to expand their answer, or we can see in order to show the exaggeration in their answering.
Hyper bowlers are the words or we can say phrases that are used in order to X exaggerate the situation.
To cite an example You didn’t have time for breakfast and you are going to a café to have lunch. The order is taking a long time and there are some mouth-watering aromas in the area which is making your hunger worse. To express how hungry you are to your friend who is with you, you can say something like:
‘I’m so hungry I can eat a horse.’
DIFFERENT HYPERBOLES USED IN IELTS
This phrase is a reflection of how large your gluttony is. Then, as you become discontented that your meal is taking much longer than usual to arrive, you can also add something such as:
‘I’m going to have to wait 100 years for this to get here.”
Obviously, it will not take hundred years to bring the meal or the meal to arrive, but you are exaggerating how long the order is taking to reflect your exasperation.
DIFFERENT HYPERBOLES USED IN IELTS
Common Hyperboles
List of common hyperboles
Relate the following given hyperboles and try to relate them in your daily life situations, and that will help you to practise a lot.
- I had to run like the wind to get to work on time.
- This bag weighs a ton – what did you put in it?
- I died of embarrassment.
- My parents are going to kill me when they find out.
- I’ve heard this story a thousand times.
- I’m drowning in paperwork at the moment.
- These shoes cost me an arm and a leg.
- I’ve told her a million times to clean her room.
- It’s going to take us forever to get there.
- It was so funny, I laughed my head off.
- She really has a heart of gold.
- I got in trouble with the teacher because I was the class clown.
- I’ve told you to clean your room a million times!
- It was so cold; I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets.
- She’s so dumb; she thinks Taco Bell is a Mexican phone company
- I have a million things to do today.
- When I was young, I had to walk 15 miles to school uphill, in the snow.
- I had a ton of homework.
- If I can’t buy that perfect prom dress, I’ll die!
- The car went faster than the speed of light.
- His new car cost a bazillion dollars.
- We’re so poor we don’t have two cents to rub together.
DIFFERENT HYPERBOLES USED IN IELTS
DIFFERENT HYPERBOLES USED IN IELTS