A. Workhouse authorities were extremely careless in their duties
This is because the passage doesn't say anything about children being weak due to poor nourishment nor parishioners wrongly criticizing their own officials, and if the legal system carefully monitored parish affairs then children wouldn't be getting scalded to death or overlooked.
•Tell them the concert is funding a charity
•Do something for them: cleanup, run errands, etc
•make a deal with them or compromise
ORRRRR just sneak out
The type of figurative language would be hyperbole because the sentence is an extreme exaggeration that conveys a point. Normally, someone wouldn't eat a horse, even if they were hungry, but "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" conveys the fact that you are hungry.
