The correct answer is option letter B (a successful and hardworking businessman). By definition, a <u>stereotype</u> is a very firm idea about what a particular type of person is like. In this case, the most likely stereotype one can spot in the phrase presented above is the one of <em>a successful and hardworking businessman</em>. One usually has the idea of a businessman who is constantly working or even overworking. In fact, the narrator <u>exaggerates</u> this idea of the hardworking businessman by using a literary technique called “exaggeration”. For instance, the amount of emails that Fred Johnson will be checking (“<em>checking the four thousand emails</em>”).
D- Connotative, Abstract, because connotative is the way the writer feels towards the word. That is why they used it, to give it their own definition.<span />
Answer:
The speaker is talking about their journey and how it isn't to accomplish anything. In their perspective, they are scaling a "metaphorical mountain" for no specific reason.
