Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Answer 1

Before answering the question, let us first explain what we understand for figurative language. It is the use of the language in any way that is not strictly literal. Even though it's often questioned how many "categories" of figurative language there are, it's safe to say there are at least six distinct categories. They are: metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, and symbolism, and irony.

In the excerpt shown, there present two of them, hyperbole and verbal Irony. The example for the hyperbole is this: “with all the force in his body” the reason for this is in the meaning of the sentence, it is an exaggeration, if you used literally all the force in your body, you would naturally faint or even die. The next example is for the verbal irony: “an opportunity to reward me” a reward was not really what the performer of the action was going to do, it was precisely the opposite, he was going to punish the man, and that is indeed the irony, the use of the opposite of any word that should be used.

The answer to this question is that the excerpt above is and example of:

hyperbole

figurative language

verbal irony

Since hyperbole and verbal irony are categories of figurative language, that, figurative language is also correct as an asnwer.