Hyperbole

Deliberate exaggeration, which no one takes literally, to give emphasis to a feeling or a situation.

In The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Living gentlemen, there is nothing as immeasurable as the scorn of the dead.

"Immeasurable" exaggerates the size of the dead's scorn to emphasize how far the narrator no longer depends on the opinion of the living.

Chapters XVII to XXIV: Coimbra and His Mother's Death, the narrator

Every man has the need and the power to contemplate his own nose, in order to see the celestial light, and such contemplation, whose effect is the subordination of the universe to a single nose, constitutes the balance of societies

Chapters XXXVIII to XLIX: Virgília Lost, the Death of His Father, and the Inheritance, the narrator

this chicken I have just eaten for lunch is the result of a multitude of efforts and struggles, carried out for the sole purpose of quelling my appetite

Chapters CXVII to CXXXVI: Humanitism, Nhã-loló, and the Fifty Years, Quincas Borba