Question

My great grandmother is so old that she actually taught the cavemen how to make fire. Question 1 options: The writer uses hyperbole to offer a lighthearted joke about the age of the grandmother. The writer uses a simile to compare the grandmother to cavemen. The writer uses personification to show she is older than fire. The writer uses an idiom to create a connection with the people in his culture.

Answer 1

The writer uses hyberbole to offer a lighthearted joke about the age of the grandmother.

Answer 2

Correct option is number 1: The writer uses hyperbole to offer a lighthearted joke about the age of the grandmother.

Hyperbole is a rhetorical figure that consists in the exaggeration of a quality. In this case, the age of the grandmother. It may be very old, but never taught how to fire the caveman