What is an example of hyperbole in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

A hyperbole is another word for any intentional
exaggeration for effect. If you think about it, we all use hyperboles every day in our
speech. Consider the following example: "I've been walking for miles!" Mostly we haven't
been walking for miles, but the hyperbole here conveys the sense of exhaustion we feel
and our sense of how long we have walked.

Twain is a writer
that uses hyperbole a lot in his work. Huck Finn, as a character who likes to embellish
and exaggerate, uses hyperbole in lots of instances. Consider this example from Chapter
Sixteen which describes the steamboat that smashes into the
raft:

She was
a big one, and she was coming in a hurry, too, looking like a black cloud with rows of
glowworms around it; but all of a sudden she bulged out, big and scary, with a long row
of wide-open furnace doors shining like red-hot teeth, and her monstrous bows and guards
hanging right over us.

Note
how the description is exaggerated to make the steamboat appear more fearsome and
dangerous than it actually is. The similes and metaphors employed help in this
hyperbole, comparing the steamboat to a "black cloud" surrounded by "glowworms" to
increase the fear that the steamboat instills. Likewise the steamboat increases in size,
with the furnace doors looking like "red-hot teeth," which exaggerates the size and
appearance of the steamboat as it crashes into them.

This
is just one example. Hopefully you will now be able to go back and find some more
examples of hyperbole in this excellent novel. Good luck!