Getting the Langue of It

I thought there were only five, 'figure skating' being one of them. But basically, and which is what all I learned in school, there are about forty-six of them.

Okay, if you want to really go scholarly, figures of speech can be classified into two broad dichotomies -- speech and thought, or stropes and schemes. 

One book says there are about 240 figures of speech which of course enlists parenthesis or, 'interpretatio' as a class in the Figures of Definition and that's under schemes.   

But let me tell you, we will not get anywhere with academic facts and figures much less a dichotomy of the system of nomenclature.

Now I say, of all figures of speech known to the educated thinking man, hyperbole is the probably the only one that sounds most compatible with hysterical realism, or, that literary offshoot of magical realism, which in psychology is known as retrospective falsification; known as Gianni Versace in haute couture; Liberace in music and, Imelda Marcos in thirdworld politics.

I therefore declare hyperbole as the official figure of speech for hysterical realism or, hysterialism, the art of embellishing a story by distorting, exaggerating, convoluting, conflating the details while dropping unfavorable ones to fit a desired outcome -- to make this 'enhanced' version become a memory and record of a remarkable tale.

So, if others see and report an apple as just an apple, I will say of it as a cherry with an overblown ego for a lot of reasons, one being the ultimate symbol for temptation. 

Got your own hysterialism?

Why don't you jump in while I go search for hysterically realistic articles on Gather or at least those that bear traces or, sembleance hysterialism?