Exaggerate
One feature, too big; still itself.
The caricature's nose.
Seen in Agostino Carracci, Sheet of Caricature Heads, Parma, 1594
Try it on your work
Pick the one feature of the thing you're working on that carries it. Make five versions, each with that feature grown larger and nothing else changed. Stop at the last version someone still takes for the thing; keep that one and the one after it, side by side.
Describe your project in one sentence. Rewrite it five times, each time making one claim larger while the rest stays as it was. Stop when a reader asks whether you are joking; the version before that is the finding.
Two people. One shows a habit of theirs; the other performs it back with one trait grown larger each round. Stop at the round the first person no longer accepts it as their habit.
How it has been used
Pick one feature and make it too big for the rest: the nose in the caricature, the one word shouted in a whispered sentence, the handle twice the size of its cup. The move forces the push past proportion and forbids the tip over: once the thing stops being itself, a threshold has been crossed, and that is a different move.
Where it leads
Grouped under Change what it is