Understanding Understatement

The rain pours, pours endlessly.

• hyperbole

• understatement

She gave birth to me, raised me and provided for me from an infant… Maybe I owe her one.

• hyperbole

• understatement

It wasn't too neighborly when he poisoned my poodle.

• hyperbole

• understatement

He was tired of life and too tired to die.

• hyperbole

• understatement

Jeb figured that wrestling the grizzly bear would be a tad bit risky, so he went back the way he came.

• hyperbole

• understatement

When I die shatter the sky with trumpets above my grave.

• hyperbole

• understatement

There came a summer day that was entirely for me.

• hyperbole

• understatement

My dog is big, so big indeed, when he drinks what he needs, the rivers of the Earth recede.

• hyperbole

• understatement

The elderly woman who was thrown from the train was having a rough morning.

• hyperbole

• understatement

A billion balloons congratulating the graduates graduating, "We're glad you made it."

• hyperbole

• understatement