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.
B) escape from their enemies by jumping away
Escape is spelled correctly in the excerpt. Escape does not have an x. This means option A is wrong and B is correct. C is also wrong because of the spelling of escape and also because it uses the wrong there. In the sentence, their is a possessive adjective. It shows that enemies "belong" to the monkeys since they are the enemies of the monkeys. There means a place, as in over there. They're is a contraction meaning they are. Option D is wrong because of the spelling of escape and the apostrophe in enemie's. An apostrophe is used for contractions or to show ownership. The enemies do not own anything and it is not part of a contraction.
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<u><em>Although Betty Parris later married and raised a family in Sudbury, Mass, there are no records indicating what happened to Abigail Williams after the Salem Witch Trials ended. “Abigail Williams, haunted to the end, apparently died before the end of 1697 if not sooner, no older than seventeen.”</em></u>
In many ways, the character of Abigail Williams can be considered a one-dimensional villain. All throughout the play while she's wrecking diabolical havoc on the community, she doesn't express any remorse for the damage she's caused and the lives she's inexplicitly ruined.
C) When traveling in space, astronauts weigh less because of a lack of gravity.
