Hey!! The answer is, A. Amy, Megan! A predicate nominative is the noun following a linking verb that restates or stands for the subject!
Macedonian. This should be the correct thing your looking for.
This was towards the end of the book where Heck Tate wants Atticus to change or leave out other facts of the encounter of the children. Boo Radley saved Jem from the attack which resulted in the death of Bob Ewell who was out to get everybody who had something to do with the trial. Tate wanted to protect Boo Radley as he was just a fragile mockingbird who only saved Jem from a bad situation.
"I am buried in homework", he told his friends. "I might suffocate under an avalanche of paper and books." The literary device that is used in this statement is Hyperbole. Hyperbole is a figure of speech or literary device that overstates or exaggerates a statement for emphasis or to make a point, but does not have to be taken literally. Hyperbole is a Greek word that means "excess".
