A hyperbole from the book The Tell-Tale Heart?

One possible hyperbole from "The Tell-Tale Heart" comes from the narrator's description of the old man's eye:

> "He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it."

While the narrator claims the eye looked like a vulture's, this is a gross exaggeration. Vulture eyes are typically dark and fierce, not pale blue with a film over them. The narrator uses this hyperbole to emphasize the eye's unsettling quality and its significance in his obsessive hatred.