Answer:
The trashcan in my classroom caught on fire last week. I grabbed the fire extinguisher. Not being the most technical savvy professor on campus, I didn’t exactly know how to use it, so I resorted to reading the instructions. One of my students had replaced the instructions on the extinguisher with the following:
When a fire is burning hotter than bituminous coal in the belly of a furnace and it requires not a little water, you’re in luck, for you have found the metaphorical Balm of Gilead to quench the flaming obstruction.
Answer:
D. hyperbole
Explanation:
Let us briefly define all the given answers.
Metaphor is a type of comparison, where the features and qualities of one thing are expressed through another familiar thing.
Onomatopoeia is a word formed from the sound it makes (splash, bam, bang).
Oxymoron is a combination of contradictory words that sound paradoxically (an open secret).
Hyperbole is a literary device that uses exaggeration to emphasize a message.
In the given example, it is obvious that the narrator didn't walk a million miles, but uses the exaggeration to show that the road to get there was as hard as if he really walked a million miles.
Carmen, you don't want to text and drive. Reason being there has been multiple occasions where deaths have been reported from a texting and driving situation. What a tragic death to die to be gone in an instant and to put other people at risk. If you live through an accident and kill the hit person you can lose your license and go to jail for a long time. Are you willing to do all that for one text?
Hey There!
The Woman herself killed her sister
Explanation:
she did it so that the man could be there to attend the funeral .