Hyperbole Case

Hyperbole

Initially a Hyperbole is utilized in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to express an exaggeration or overstatement. In the beginning paragraph of chapter 13 Huck states “I catched my breath and most fainted." (70). This quote is used to convey Huck’s nervousness toward the reader. The exaggeration used was the way he said that he “most fainted” (70) portraying his apprehensive feelings. In addition Huck asserts “No sign of a boat. Jim said he didn’t believe he could go any farther-so scared he hadn’t hardly any strength left, he said.” (70). Huck exhibits an overstatement by presenting that Jim was so scared he had barley any strength left to continue. One can’t become fatigue through fear but actual physical movements and through this Huck exaggerates the fear of Jim. In extension Huck affirms “one of the men stuck his head out only about a couple of foot from me, and I thought I was gone…” (71). Huck exposes his great fear of publicity and his revealing of not actually being dead. The way Mark twain the author arranges the sentence it exaggerates the fear in which he is exposed to society. To a further extent Twain portrays figurative language in the last line of chapter 13 when he states “so we struck for an island, and hid the raft, and sunk the skiff, and turned in and slept like dead people.” (75). Twain here is portraying a simile on how he is comparing their sleep with dead people and how dead people have eternal sleep as if they were going to sleep forever.