LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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Question
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I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
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alliteration
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foreshadow
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hyperbole
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metaphor
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Hyperbole – An extreme exaggeration. Example… I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
Detailed explanation-2: -idiom. informal. used to illustrate that someone is very hungry. I didn’t eat today and now I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hyperbole is probably the one literary and rhetorical device on this list that most people have heard of. It’s not just moderate exaggeration, but extreme exaggeration: being hungry enough to eat a horse, or so angry you will literally explode, or having to walk 40 miles uphill both ways to school every day.
Detailed explanation-4: -1. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
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