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What type of figurative language is used in this excerpt? “The waves rose mountains high, as if they would have overtopped the mast.”
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What type of figurative language is used in this excerpt?

“The waves rose mountains high, as if they would have overtopped the mast.”

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hyperbole: an exaggeration of the example being used
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