Allie Brosh’s comics examine the mundane and the irrational – crazy dogs, the danger of a kid’s dinosaur costume, a shriveled kernel of corn that can break through deep depression. Brosh’s blog is so ...

You may have vague recollections of hyperbole from high school English or Language Arts class es. Or, perhaps you’re a seasoned writer looking to add more hyperbole examples to your arsenal. Maybe, ...

Cartoonist and blogger Allie Brosh amassed a huge Internet following for “Hyperbole and a Half,” her site that combines uncomfortably true-to-life thoughts with deliberately childlike cartoons. After ...

Then, in 2011, after updating only once after the announced march to publication, Brosh took a hiatus that began to seem interminable. The original book launch date of fall 2012 came and went. With ...

Exaggeration used for emphasis or humour that’s not meant to be taken literally. Chances are you’ve used hyperbole before when talking to your friends. What about this? "OMG she was dying of laughter” ...

In 1835, Phineas Taylor Barnum was anxious to find an “amusement” to attract paying customers. One lucky day a stranger told Barnum that he possessed half-ownership of a “curiosity”: a woman named ...