Nepali people celebrate it as the beginning of the auspicious month of Magh.
The literary device that the author used in the passage is hyperbole. A hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses extreme overstatement or exaggeration to have a humorous, ironic, or heightened dramatic effects.
Example: I am so hungry I could eat an elephant.
obnoxious = ob nox ious is the way you break it into syllables
nonrestrictive = non re stic tive
receivable = re ceiv a ble
reception = re cep tion
