“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum”? - is an example of -

• “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum”?- is an example of - Hyperbole
• An exaggerated statement or an extreme overstatement is termed as - Hyperbole.
- Hyperbole - অতিরঞ্জন বা অতিশয়োক্তি
- কোন ব্যক্তি বা বস্তুকে তার বাস্তব অবস্থানের চেয়ে বাড়িয়ে বলা।
যেমন:
- 'Ten thousand saw I at a glance'
- “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum”?
- 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!'

Source: An ABC of English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman.