33 Examples of Hyperbole and Personification Figures in Indonesian

Hyperbole and personification are two of all kinds of figure of speech what is in the treasure languageIndonesia. Hyperbole is a figure of speech that expresses something in an exaggerated way. Meanwhile, personification figure of speech is a figure of speech that makes inanimate objects seem to be able to do what living things do.

To find out what examples of these two figure of speeches look like, here are some examples of the two that can be listened to as follows!

A. Example of hyperbole

1. I already called him, sent letter up to tens of thousands of times, came to his house every second and every minute, but he couldn't reach me and I met him.
2. I've explained it to him until my mouth is foaming, but he still doesn't understand.
3. Your cooking is so delicious, I want to eat it up to a thousand times.
4. I will wait for him here, even for ten thousand years.
5. I've been looking for it to the deepest ocean, but I can't find it.
6. Her smile is so sweet, it makes me diabetic because of it.
7. The look in his eyes is so cool, that I want to rest in it.
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8. Right now, I felt like I was being crushed by a huge herd of elephants.
9. My heart is now torn by his words that are as sharp as the samurai sword.
10. I felt like I was abandoned by everyone on this planet earth.
11. He has a million one hundred thousand ways to deceive others.
12. My love for you is growing like a snowball.
13. My life without love from you, like the sky without the sun.
14. I will climb a thousand mountains, to conquer your heart.
15. His sharp gaze pierced my heart.
16. His words had made me fall and could not get up again.

B. Example of Personification

1. The morning sun has waved its hand at me.
2. the night breeze has poked my thin body.
3. The spicy taste of this food has whipped my tongue.
4. The volcano had vomited everything in its stomach.
5. The night star is greeting the universe with great affection.
6. The earth shook and caused tectonic earthquakes.
7. This cup of coffee has caressed my throat.
8. The houses caught fire from the rage fire.
9. Indiscriminately, the ocean waves have hit whatever is in front of them.
10. The sun has returned to its resting place.
11. The fallen leaves are dancing in the wind.
12. Waves on this beach is singing the melodious roar.
13. The clock on the wall laughed at me who just kept silent.
14. The twilight is greeting us sitting on this park bench.
15. This mattress has lulled me, so that I fell asleep for so long.
16. The leaves of the coconut tree are waving to us who are on this beach pier.
17. The sun this afternoon was staring at us with his bleary gaze.

Those are some examples of hyperbole and personification figure of speech in Indonesian. Hopefully it will be useful and able to add insight to all readers, both regarding hyperbole and personification in particular, as well as Indonesian language in general. Please also forgive if there are errors contained in this article.

If the reader wants to add reference about maja, then the reader can open the following articles, namely: example of asidenton and polysidenton figure of speech; examples of anaphora and metaphor; example of litotes and hyperbole figure of speech; as well as articles example of irony and litotes figure of speech.