Read the passage.
The day Michael made the decision to quit smoking for good was a day he won't forget. He was 52 years old and woke up struggling to breathe. "It was 4 hours of stark raving terror. I was suffocating to death. Every cell in my body was screaming for oxygen!"
Which type of figurative language is best represented by the italicized text?
A. Hyperbole
B. Personification
C. Metaphor
D. Alliteration