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I was quaking from head to foot l, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far. A oxymoron

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Answer:it’s a hyperbole

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It’s an over exaggeration

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Answer:

It's not an oxymoron. It is a metaphor.

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It compares an object to an action, and it is not literary applicable. The metaphor "could have hung my hat on my eyes," this means that they were so surprised/frightened that their eyes were very wide. Picuring someone's eyes as wide enough to hang a hat is part of the definition of hat a metaphor is.

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