What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee? People moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. A. metaphor. B. alliteration C. hyperbole D. euphemism E. oxymoron

The question ask to find the kind of figure of speech that is used in the sentences from To kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the best answer among them is in letter D. Euphemmism. I hope you are satisfied with my answer and feel free to ask for more if you have question and further clarification

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MrsTate MrsTate · Answer 2 · 2018-08-02T20:18:23+02:00

C. hyperbole

A hyperbole is an over exaggeration. In this case, the narrator is exaggerating the effect of the Great Depression. The purpose of this hyperbole is to show how poor everyone is. A metaphor is a comparison between two different things without using like or as. Nothing is being compared so A is wrong. Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a group of words. There is no alliteration so B is wrong. A euphemism is a word that is substituted for a harsher word so as to seem nicer. For example, one might say they've been let go instead of fired. An oxymoron is a statement of opposites such as jumbo shrimp.