I listened to grandpa, mom talking to dad, giving dad advice and the baby banging his block, over and over on the ground.
The answer is "persuasion..." maybe..... I think.....
The literary device that the author used in the passage is hyperbole. A hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses extreme overstatement or exaggeration to have a humorous, ironic, or heightened dramatic effects.
Example: I am so hungry I could eat an elephant.