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Politicians use political speeches as a potent instrument to sway public opinion and deliver their views. Politicians frequently use a variety of stylistic techniques in these speeches to attract the audience and highlight on the important issues. One of such tactic is hyperbole, a figure of speech which is distinguished by exaggeration, overstretching, or statements that are not meant to be taken literally through the usage of certain words under its social and political importance. The purpose of this study is to analyze and classify hyperbolical patterns in political speeches by exploring their effects and understanding their linguistic impact by finding out its frequency in terms of forms and functions. In order to achieve the aims of the present study, three selected speeches of Donald Trump were analyzed through adopting linguistic model to reach a better understanding of the hyperbole. The study adopts qualitative research of analysis as the design and a descriptive as method. From these three speeches, the researcher found 7 forms of hyperbole have been used by Trump in order to clarify his ideas. Whereas, 9 functions for hyperbole had found 7 of them only. The study is concluded that there are some patterns of hyperbole are used by Trump in his speeches to capture the attention of audience, emphasize his points, and sway public opinion.
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