Hyperbole Hyperbola
By Ben Whisman
~ Revision 1: 2007-05-15
~ Revision 2: 2010-08-06
Hyperbole Hyperbola
The shape of things to come
Squeezes out the middle
Saddles with extremes
Magnifies your concerns
Projects your chimaeras
Unchain the hold on the center
Grass roots for middle ground
Open the narrow mind
Unbox your freedom
chimera , chimaera
• An imaginary, false monster, created out of people’s fears;
• A Greek monster with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon; a personification of winter snowstorms, the daughter of Typhon;
• A composite organism, a genetic anomaly;
hyperbola
hyperbole
I was really surprised when no one caught the pun between “hyperbole” and “hyperbola” and I was “corrected” by readers. So this revision spells it out literally.