Read the sentence. Returning home from the trip, we peeled off our sodden coats, dropped all of our suitcases on the floor, and
headed for the kitchen in the back. Which part of the sentence uses description to hold the reader’s interest? Returning home from the trip we peeled off our sodden coats dropped all our suitcases on the floor and headed for the kitchen in the back
I would say that the intended meaning of that hyperbole is that the speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the British government.
