Stretching the Truth: How to Identify and Use Hyperbole

Miacademy & MiaPrep Learning Channel

This engaging educational video introduces students to the concept of hyperbole—a figure of speech involving extreme exaggeration. Set against a playful Wild West backdrop, the narrator and a robot companion, Mia, guide viewers through a "ghost town" where they must identify hyperbolic statements to wake the sleeping "Guardian of Hyperbole." The video alternates between clear definitions and practical examples, distinguishing between realistic descriptions and hyperbolic ones found on town signs and in poetry.