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What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?
People moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.
A.
metaphor
B.
alliteration
C.
hyperbole
D.
euphemism
E.
oxymoron
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C hyperbole? because it's exaggerating.
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C. A hyperbole is used in the given sentence from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee.
Cambridge English Dictionary defines 'hyperbole' as 'a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound much bigger, better, smaller, worse, more unusual, etc., than they are.'
In the given sentence, Harper Lee uses a hyperbole to describe Maycomb County. It is quite impossible that there is nothing to buy and no money to buy it with. Exaggeration has been used to emphasize the idea of the town presented in the given sentence.
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