How does hyperbole best affect the meaning of these sentences from the passage? My hold parted, and for the third time the blankets slid away. I groaned. An answering groan came from the foot of the bed! Beaded drops of sweat stood upon my forehead. I was more dead than alive. A). It provides evidence that the narrator feels tired and overheated. B). It indicates the fear the narrator feels when he hears a groan in his room C). It shows that the narrator has exerted himself too much. D). It implies that the narrator is too warm with the blankets on him.
Because the use of punctuation '' an answering groan came from the foot of the bed!'' It indicates his reaction to be shocked and unexpected, the noise was unknown, which left him to begin to sweat in fear.