Question

Which excerpt has the greatest hyperbole? The pear tree stood tall in the garden, waving her shady branches. Leaves fell like confetti when the children scrambled up the tree. The doctor’s office was empty as a tomb for months and months. The children climbed higher than the sun’s rays that afternoon.

Answer 1

"The children climbed higher than the sun's rays that afternoon."

Step-by-step explanation:

a hyperbole is an unrealistic exaggeration.

Nobody can actually climb higher than the sun's rays.

also...

the first one is personification (giving things that don't have human characteristics, human characteristics)

the second one is a simile (a comparison between two things and uses the words "like" and/or "as")

and the third one is a metaphor (a comparison between two objects and doesn't used the words "like" or "as")

I hope this helps. Have an amazing day, bean child.

Answer 2

The children climbed higher than the sun's rays is the most obvious hyperbole in the text.