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"For a snack between meals he would eat fifty bales of hay, wire and all and six men with picaroons were kept busy picking the wire out of his teeth. "

What figure of speech is most prominently displayed in this sentence?
Responses
A simile
B hyperbole
C personification
D paradox

1 Answer

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B. Hyperbole

Hyperbole is utilized because the sentence contains exaggeration: he ate fifty bales of hay and six men picked wire out of his teeth.
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