What does the hyperbole in this text suggest? At that time Bogotá was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the 16th century.

—Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Living to Tell the Tale, translated by Edith Grossman

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Hatchell landscape architecture firm worked on which two of the following projects

Manny realizes that the castle described in the book he is reading stands for a larger idea : paradise. which literary device is the author using ?