Exaggeration

[6] Exaggerating is also a type of deception,[7] as well as a means of malingering – magnifying small injuries or discomforts as an excuse to avoid responsibilities.

[10] Harold Osborne writes that in its wake, even the "new and hard realism...kept much of the distortion and exaggeration which had been one of the chief devices of earlier Expressionism".

[14] A caricature is a type of portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness: Filippo Baldinucci describes this as "disproportionately increasing and emphasizing the defects of the features".

[16] Slapstick is the recourse to humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of common sense.

The classical definition of exaggeration, employed by Disney, was to remain true to reality, just presenting it in a wilder, more extreme form.

[24] He may have overstated this case, but yellow journalism thrived on exaggeration,[25] and fact-checking and independent verification have not succeeded in suppressing clickbait or hyperbolic headlines.

People with the following mental health issues are prone to make exaggerated representations: Factitious disorder is when a person acts as if they have a physical or psychological illness.

Compare with the scene in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail[32] involving the Black Knight character which is the opposite extreme of absurdity (minimisation).

1796 fashion caricature by Richard Newton parodying a woman's headdress using exaggeration
The "braggart soldier" Pyrgopolynices in a 2012 production of the play Miles Gloriosus
During the election of 1800, surrogates of John Adams' political campaign warned voters that if Thomas Jefferson won the election, "murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught and practiced." [ 26 ]