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Definition of Hyperbole
Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker exaggerates for the sake of emphasis. Hyperbolic statements are usually quite obvious exaggerations intended to emphasize a point... read full definition
Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker exaggerates for the sake of emphasis. Hyperbolic statements are usually quite obvious exaggerations... read full definition
Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker exaggerates for the sake of emphasis. Hyperbolic statements... read full definition
Key Examples in Death in Venice
Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—A Real Seizure :
In a passage suffused with hyperbolic language, the narrator describes Aschenbach's sudden "urge to travel" as both a "seizure" and a "delusion of the senses":
It was an urge to travel, nothing more; but it presented itself in the form of a real seizure, intensified to the point of passionateness; in fact, it was like a delusion of the senses. His desire was clairvoyant; his imagination, which had not yet come to rest since his hours of work, summoned up a representative sampling of all the wonders and terrors of the variegated earth, all of which it attempted to visualize at one and the same time: he saw, saw a landscape, a tropical swampy region under a vapor-laden sky, damp, luxuriant and uncanny [...]
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