hyperbole,

Thus perished a woman, the scandal of whose lewdness resounded throughout the empire, and of whom a great satirist, then living, has said, perhaps without a hyperbole,

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

But the ten husbands in a month of the poet Martial, is an extravagant hyperbole,

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

You may be surprised to find that, behind the hyperbole,

Reseller News 2010

"Mock not," pleaded blogger Andrew Sullivan as he posted an instaclassic of hyperbole,

Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009