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review the passage. the hyperbole is shown in bold.
at that time bogotá was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the sixteenth century. i noticed that on the street there were too many hurrying men, dressed like me when i arrived, in black wool and bowler hats. on the other hand, not a single consolatory woman could be seen, for they, like priests in cassocks and soldiers in uniform, were not permitted to enter the gloomy cafés in the business district.
from gabriel garcía márquez, living to tell the tale
what is the effect of the hyperbole on the passages meaning or tone?
it suggests that the narrator has trouble sleeping.
it implies that it rains too much in bogotá.
Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement. "Insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the sixteenth century" exaggerates the amount of rain. It's not about the narrator's sleep (no connection to narrator's sleep in the hyperbole). The exaggeration is to emphasize the excessive rain in Bogotá.
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It implies that it rains too much in Bogotá.