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"Not only was he the tallest, strongest, most virile and best-equipped man they had ever seen, but as they watched him he didn't even fit in their imaginations" (Marquez 1).

What literary device is used in this quote?

simile


personification


onomatopoeia


figurative language

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Figurative language.

When one uses figurative language, one does not mean the actual/literal meaning of what was said. Figurative language is just a figure of speech and is typically used to provide a better mental image to readers of what it is the writer is trying to convey by manner of exaggeration. Thus, because we all know that it is literally impossible for something to physically not be able to fit into an imagination, this is figuratively written—or figurative language.

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The answer is figurative language
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