"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment(19)."
-Mr. Darcy
This quote would be under figurative language, and specifically be a hyperbole. A hyperbole is a purposeful exaggeration for emphasis or humor. This quote shows both(although some people might beg the differ). It is an emphasis on just how quickly a person's mind will be to judge on its own with just a single detail of information. For example, In the scene that belongs to this quote, Mr.Darcy had just told Miss Bingley that he was looking at a beautiful women and with that single strand of information she was sparked with joy. This is also humorous because it shows just how quickly a single show of admiration could come across in the mind of a women as marriage. It is more on humor of absurdity. It helps the reader know how quickly desperate the need for a partner was and shows a bit of the disparity people had. It means that a lady's mind is quick to think of one little act of kindness of a gentleman and blow it up to proportions and come out thinking he had just proposed.
-Lilly
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I love how you actually explained what you were writing about, and told us the definitions of the words you were using! And you entertain your readers.
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