Answer:
I actually just answered this for someone else so search your question and it should pop up :)
Explanation:
I think his name was Lyndon. Anyway, when Lyndon tried to smuggle letters out with released men, he found out that the letters he tried to send with his friends that were free from prison were not sent. The released men were searched and the found letters were read and confiscated.
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.
The answer is going to be A)
