select the hyperbole in the passage. at that time bogotá was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac…

select the hyperbole in the passage. 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

select the hyperbole in the passage. 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

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Brief Explanations:

A hyperbole is an exaggerated statement. The claim that rain in Bogotá had been falling "since the beginning of the sixteenth century" is an over - exaggeration for effect, not a literal fact.

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At that time Bogotá was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the sixteenth century.