‘That guy wouldn’t hurt a fly’. What is the technique used (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification)? How can you tell? What is the effect?

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‘That guy wouldn’t hurt a fly’. What is the technique used (simile,

metaphor, hyperbole, personification)? How can you tell? What is the effect?

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This is hyperbole, the effect is that the man is portrayed as being harmless and doesn't want to hurt anyone.

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