This paper explores the function of hyperbole not merely as a decorative rhetorical device, but as the primary ontological foundation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. While magical realism is often defined by the seamless integration of the supernatural into the mundane, this study argues that hyperbole serves as the linguistic bridge that collapses the distinction between the two.

By analyzing key episodes such as the insomnia plague, the four-year rainfall, and the physical elevation of Remedios the Beauty the research demonstrates how Garcia Marquez utilizes quantitative and qualitative exaggeration to recalibrate the reader's perception of  the possible.

Magical Realism, Hyperbole, Ontology, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Post-colonial Literature, Macondo.

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. (1967). Cien años de soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude]. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana. (The primary source for all 74 data samples analyzed in this study).

Bowers, Maggie Ann. (2004). Magic(al) Realism. London: Routledge. (Provides the foundational theory for how hyperbole functions as an ontological tool rather than a rhetorical one).

Carpentier, Alejo. (1949). El reino de este world [The Kingdom of This World]. Mexico City: Ibero Americana. (Specifically the prologue regarding "lo real maravilloso," supporting the argument that Latin American reality is inherently excessive).

Faris, Wendy B. (2004). Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. (Crucial for analyzing the "literalization of metaphor" found in the samples of traveling blood and falling flowers).

García Márquez, Gabriel. (1982). The Solitude of Latin America. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. (Direct evidence of the author's intent to use hyperbole as a form of historical truth-telling).

Menton, Seymour. (1983). Magic Realism Redivivus. Hispanic Review, 51(3). (Analysis of the technical precision and numerical validation used to ground magic in reality).

Zamora, Lois Parkinson, and Faris, Wendy B. (Eds.). (1995). Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community. Durham: Duke University Press. (A synthesis of critical essays that connect the Buendia family's solitude to the hyperbolic environment).