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English, 31.03.2020 05:02, herchellann302

Excerpt from Appetite
Will Wordy
In a house the size of a postage stamp
lived a man as big as a barge.
His mouth could drink the entire river
You could say it was rather large
For dinner he would eat a trillion beans
And a silo full of grain,
Washed it down with a tanker of milk
As if he were a drain
What is the dominant type of figurative language used in the poem?
A)
hyperbole
B)metaphor
C)simile
D)synecdoche

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