Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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