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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
Chapter 28
Explanation and Analysis—Huck's Speed:
After Tom breaks into Injun Joe’s room at the Temperance Tavern and finds the man passed out on the floor (leading him to conclude that the place must be haunted by whiskey), he runs past Huck, telling him to run for his life. Twain uses hyperbole to capture Huck’s fear:
“Run!” said he; “run for your life!”
[Tom] needn’t have repeated it; once was enough; Huck was making thirty or forty miles an hour before the repetition was uttered. The boys never stopped till they reached the shed of a deserted slaughterhouse at the lower end of the village.
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