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What type of figurative language is used in the following passage?

"I don't like it here," he said for the hundredth time.

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Answer: Hyperbole

Explanation: A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration. What this sentence really means is that he said it a lot, he did not actually say ”I don’t like it here.” 100 times.

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