When the author writes, "Fred Johnson is currently working on it while sitting in a cubicle checking the four thousand emails on his palm pilot," which literary technique is being used?

A) analogy

B) comparison

Eliminate

C) exaggeration

D) understatement

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Salma Morrison

22 January, 15:42

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Taniyah Williams · Answer 1

C (exaggeration) He does not really have four thousand emails

Maximilian Avery · Answer 2

C exaggeration because he most likely does not have exactly 4909 emails

When the author writes, "Fred Johnson is currently working on it while sitting in a cubicle checking the four thousand emails on his palm pilot," which literary technique is being used?A) analogyB) comparisonEliminateC) exaggerationD) understatement