1. His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness.

2. One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film
over it.

3. I heard all things in heaven and earth. I heard many things in hell.

4. A shriek had been heard by a neighbor during the night.

5. Tear up the planks!-here, here!- it is the beating of his hideous heart!

6. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his
black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.

7. It was a low, dull, quick sound- much such a sound as a watch makes
when enveloped in cotton.

8. Yes, he was stone, stone dead.

9. It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp.

10. It is impossible to say how at first the idea entered my brain, but once
conceived it haunted me day and night.

11. Until, at length, a single dim ray, like the very thread of the spider, shot
from out the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye.

12. A new anxiety seized me- the sound would be heard by a neighbor!

13. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into
Courage.
Which one is a hyperbole?

None of the sentences listed above contain hyperbole. Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which exaggerated statements or claims are made for emphasis or dramatic effect.

A hyperbole is an exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally. None of the sentences listed are hyperboles. They are all examples of descriptive language and imagery used in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart."

None of the statements listed are hyperboles. A hyperbole is a figure of speech that involves exaggeration for emphasis or dramatic effect.