hyperbole

noun3

1. •
   Deliberate overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.

   • Hyperbole soars too high, or creeps too low, Exceeds the truth, things wonderful to shew. — 1835
2. •
   An instance or example of such overstatement.

   • […]and when he speakes, / 'Tis like a Chime a mending. With tearmes vnsquar' / Which from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropt, / Would seemes Hyperboles — 1602
3. •
   (no longer used) A hyperbola.