Choose the sentences that are examples of hyperbole:
(A) Bhaiya has been in the bathroom for a century this morning.
(B) During the minute of silence, the assembly ground was as still as a painted picture.
(C) Our cricket coach shouts so loudly that the birds in the next state fly away.
(D) Running ten kilometres in the June heat was no easy task for Grandpa.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A) and (C) only
Hyperbole is a big exaggeration made for effect.
(A) Bhaiya has been in the bathroom for a century this morning. — Correct.
- Nobody can stay in a bathroom “for a century”. It only means Bhaiya took a very long time.
(B) During the minute of silence, the assembly ground was as still as a painted picture. — Incorrect.
- This is a simile, because the ground is compared to a picture with “as still as”.
(C) Our cricket coach shouts so loudly that the birds in the next state fly away. — Correct.
- A shout cannot reach “the birds in the next state”. It only means the coach is very loud.
(D) Running ten kilometres in the June heat was no easy task for Grandpa. — Incorrect.
- This is litotes, because “no easy task” uses “no” before the opposite to mean “a very hard task”.