They stretched in never-ending lineTen thousand saw I at a glance Tossing.

Example of hyperbole in daffodils. The example above is a common hyperbole used to emphasis the number of shoes a person has. Its as windy as a hurricane outside This statement might be made when it is fairly windy but not hurricane strength. What is a hyperbole in literature.

It comically gets across just how cold it was. The heads of the daffodils are the part of the flower with the petals. A great example of hyperbole in literature comes from the narrators opening remarks in the American folktale Babe the Blue Ox.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance 3. He reveals that his change in perspective has given him enough happiness to last him a lifetime. It is larger and heavier than the stem and so it bobs in a breeze.

When all at once I saw a crowd Ten thousand saw I at a glance In the two examples above the poet has used crowd and ten thousand to mean a lot of daffodils. I say this because the whole second stanza in the poem is a series of hyperboles for example. The speaker says that the line of daffodils is never-ending but we know this cant be strictly true.

In The Iliad he said the god Mars cried out as loudly as nine or ten thousand men Surely one man could never generate that much noise but it mustve been a cry that Mars felt from the very depths of his heart. Hyperbole a figure of speech that. But the daffodils are more than an image.

When you think about it its kind of amazing. This is definitely hyperbole because I dont believe it is possible to find a field with 10000 daffodils in my opinion I assume Wordsmith just wanted to paint an image to the readers on. Wordsworth uses a hyperbole to exaggerate the immense amount of cheerfulness the daffodils bring him.