4 Reread this passage from the humorous essay "Daring the Duomo." "A bit shakily, I stepped out onto the narrow walkway, leaning my entire body against the inside wall. I took quick, tiny steps toward the doorway back to safety, which was approximately a
hundred feet away. A small child squeezed past me, smirking and clearly unafraid."
What literary device creates the humor in this passage?
O irony
hyperbole
O juxtaposition
O personification

Hyperbole.

Explanation:

Hyperbola means exaggeration as a written stylistic means. Hyperbola is a language image in which an object is depicted in distorted proportions, greatly exaggerated. Hyperbola has been widely utilized, for example, in folklore, lyric, burlesque, satire, and humorous literature. Hyperbola can be used to enhance the central idea of a text. Many expressions are so used in everyday language that they are not perceived as hyperbolic. For example, the reply "I haven't seen you in a hundred years" or "the room was quite full" are hyperbolic.