I would probably say that the author used diction to achieve some kind of effect in the first sentence.
A. The teacher stood at the door smiling brightly and welcoming each student to her classroom on the first day of school.
The author's diction, or word choice, in this sentence portrays the teacher as a nice, kind, caring person.
It is "Maura and her mother pull themselves out onto the riverbank".
In a work of writing, the resolution is the piece of the story's plot where the fundamental issue is settled or worked out. The resolution happens after the falling activity and is normally where the story closes. In fact, resolution is otherwise called a "denouement". A large portion of the examples of resolution are displayed in the last parts or sections of a story. It for the most part pursues the peak.
Answer:
understatement : "a little busy"
It's an understatement because this person would be more than a little busy, because of the amount of work.
HYPERBOLE would be considered exaggeration...this can be confusing. :)
