Question

Hyperbole is a type of figurative language involving exaggeration. Which two sets of lines in this excerpt from Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress" are examples of hyperbole?

Answer 1

You forgot to provide the excerpt but I managed to find it anyways, so here you have the set of lines that most clearly present the use of hyperbole in the poem:

"Vaster than empires and more slow;  

An hundred years should go to praise  

Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;  

Two hundred to adore each breast,  

But thirty thousand to the rest;  

An age at least to every part"

In Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress", hyperbole is used to emphasize the magnitude of the love he feels for his mistress is. The writer streches dimensions to impossible lengths in order to convey intensity through exaggeration.

Hope this helps!