“Satire becomes extremely difficult when truth becomes consistently stranger than fiction." Activists inflate a giant balloon depicting US President Donald Trump as an orange baby during a ...

Brenyah’s Chain Gang All Stars critiques capitalist exploitation and the commodification of human lives through a dystopian lens where prisoners are turned into gladiators for profit. By ...

A parody Facebook page and the response to it has raised questions about the intersection of social media, politics and law ...

Hyperbole, similes and metaphors are all types of figurative language that help to make your writing more interesting. They can be particularly helpful for creating an image of what you are ...

Justine Timberlake's song Cry Me a River is one of many examples of songs with hyperbole in them. Hyperbole shines in the metaphorical river of tears, symbolising immense heartbreak. The words ...

It ain’t live, but Saturday Night (now streaming on Netflix, in addition to VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) is a live ...

Peter Suciu covers trends in social media. The line between satire and disinformation continues to blur on social media, where the context of a post made in jest can be misunderstood to be a ...

The new coach spent several minutes expounding on what his guiding principles would be in Detroit -- which culminated, he promised without a hint of satire or hyperbole, with a commitment to biting ...

Key aspects of the analysis are coloured with what can be described as hyperbole. The effect is that some of the economic commentators’ prescriptions lack objectivity in their analysis.

The post includes an image that matches the one shared on Instagram but includes a watermark in the lower-left corner that identifies it as satire. That watermark was cropped out of the version in ...