Question

Read the poem and select the text that shows an example of hyperbole.

Sketch
by Carl Sandburg

The shadows of the ships
Rock on the crest
In the low blue lustre
Of the tardy and the *soft inrolling tide.*

A long brown bar at *the dip of the sky*
Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt.

The lucid and *endless wrinkles*
Draw in, lapse and withdraw.
*Wavelets crumble* and white spent bubbles
Wash on the floor of the beach.

*Rocking on the crest*
In the low blue lustre
Are the shadows of the ships.

Answer 1

C.endless wrinkles

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Hyperbole is exaggeration. As you read the poem, while there may be something that could happen, there is usually an element of is that is grossly exaggerated and could never happen or is a claim that could never happen. For example, "I am so hungry I could eat a house." In this particular poem, "A long brown bar at the dip of the sky (where the sand or beach meets the sky) puts an arm of sand in the span of salt is hyperbole. The beach doesn't really have a an arm in the salt.