Excerpt from Appetite
Will Wordy
In a house the size of a postage stamp
lived a man as big as a barge.
His mouth could drink the entire river
You could say it was rather large
For dinner he would eat a trillion beans
And a silo full of grain,
Washed it down with a tanker of milk
As if he were a drain
What is the dominant type of figurative language used in the poem?
A)
hyperbole
B)metaphor
C)simile
D)synecdoche

What is the stated main idea in the paragraph? solar power uses the sun to make energy. special panels are placed in the sunlight. these panels turn the sun’s energy into electricity. on cloudy days, the panels cannot make electricity because there is not enough sunlight. therefore, solar power is not useful in some places. a. solar power uses the sun to make energy. b. special panels are placed in the sunlight. c. on cloudy days, the panels cannot make electricity because there is not enough sunlight. d. these panels turn the sun’s energy into electricity