Read the poem and select the text that shows an example of hyperbole

by Carl Sandburg

The shadows of the ships

Rock on the crest

In the low blue lustre

Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide.

A long brown bar at the dip of the sky

Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt.

The lucid and endless wrinkles

Draw in, lapse and withdraw.

Wavelets crumble and white spent bubbles

Wash on the floor of the beach.

Rocking on the crest

In the low blue lustre

Are the shadows of the ships.

A. the soft inrolling tide

B. the dip of the sky

C. endless wrinkles

D. Wavelets crumble

E. Rocking on the crest

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Hillary Casey

25 May, 19:55

Read the poem and select the text that shows an example of hyperbole

by Carl Sandburg

The shadows of the ships

Rock on the crest

In the low blue lustre

Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide.

A long brown bar at the dip of the sky

Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt.

The lucid and endless wrinkles

Draw in, lapse and withdraw.

Wavelets crumble and white spent bubbles

Wash on the floor of the beach.

Rocking on the crest

In the low blue lustre

Are the shadows of the ships.

A. the soft inrolling tide

B. the dip of the sky

C. endless wrinkles

D. Wavelets crumble

E. Rocking on the crest

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Gould · Answer 1

C - Endless wrinkles

Hyperbole is an exaggeration used in writing and to say that the wrinkles are endless is an exaggeration - they must end somewhere and only seem endless.