"With what scholars now call hyperbolic language..."

I'm going through old essays to find an example of how to use various sources together to prove a point. I'm afraid that my students will get stuck on my academicese, which already sounds weird after 1.5 years out of grad school. Historical modes of production anyone? The terrain of aesthetics? Virgil’s arguably inauthentic background? A glossy poetic? O What does it really mean!