Expression of Excessive Exaggeration

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Architectural Styles, Group 1168, Puzzle 4 (Scary Gargoyles).

Question is: Expression of Excessive Exaggeration

and the answer is: HYPERBOLE

Word Meaning:

HYPERBOLE — (uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.

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