Read the excerpt from "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture."
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In order to answer this question, we need to know what each of the options mean.
Used to criticize and expose people's foolishness with the uses of irony, humor, and/or exaggeration.
An exaggerated statement that is not literal.
Presented as something worse than it actually is.
Image (or imagery) describes something/someone with our five senses: seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling.
The statement "It is negative 100 degrees outside!" is not literal; it just means that it is extremely cold outside. This statement falls under the category of a hyperbole.