"I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far". -- Mark Twain


This figure of speech found in this quote is HYPERBOLE.


Question 1 options:

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False

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"Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard. People had to wait until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before."

• Paul Bunyan
  
  

This figure of speech is an example of a SIMILE.


Question 2 options:

True

False


Which type of figure of speech is found in this literary example?


Question 3 options:


alliteration



hyperbole



metaphor



irony






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"Well, that's cast rather a gloom over the evening, hasn't it?"

(Dinner guest, after a visit from the Grim Reaper, in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)


What type of figure of speech is found in this literary example?


Question 7 options:


alliteration



understatement



hyperbole



onomatopoeia