I could be wrong, but I would think 'verb'.
Hopes this helps!
The writer/author uses an appeal to emotion by portraying her family as abandoned by policy makers
<span>The figurative device that Swift use in his essay was </span><span>hyperbole. He used hyperbole because of the expression that is just exaggerated. The meaning of hyperbole is that it is used in the sentence to emphasize or exaggerate the thought of the sentence.</span>
