Answer:
his tendency to embellish
Explanation:
To embellish is to make something more decorative or more colorful than it actually is.
The narrator used the term "fearful, devastating scourge" to blow the situation out of proportion by making it seem more deadly than it actually was.
I haven't read a book AI Copone.
I only have modules not a book. Sorry :(
The literary device used in the sentence is a simile. Similies use the words: like or as.
The answer is this medicine.
