At the end of a long week, i usually feel like i could sleep for a decade.

a. hyperbole

b. alliteration

c. personification

d. onomatopoeia

I will start by stating which answer is right. The answer is A: Hyperbole.

I will now explain why the other choices are wrong.

I will begin with B: Alliteration. An alliteration is when the same exact sound/letter begins in most, if not all words in a sentence. A good yet over used example of this would be "Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore." Another would be "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers." In both, majority of the words begin with the S or P letter. In the sentence given above, that is not the case so B would have to be wrong.

Next, will be C: Personification. That is when an object is given human like qualities such as dancing or speaking- just to name two. A good example of this would be, "The flowers sang as we passed the garden."  (That was an original example.) Flowers cant literally sing so, that would be classified under personification. In the sentence above, (not mine) nothing is given that quality so that is also wrong.

The final choice would be D: Onomatopoeia. (Gosh I don't like typing or spelling that out, it's too long of a word.) I will simply call it poeia for now. Anyways, poeia is just a sound but, stated as a word. A good way to think of this would be comic books. When there is a fight scene such words as, pow, boom, smash, crash, bam, etc. are used to express what's happening. For this, I will be using an original example as well. "There we were driving on the highway. We were speeding to be exact. My brother lost control and we swerved. We were headed towards the car on our right. Then, BOOM! We crashed straight into them, luckily everyone was alive." In the sentence above, (not mine) nothing expresses this great literary technique. That can only mean that D is wrong leaving one choice left.

I will now explain why A: Hyperbole is correct.

A hyperbole is a literary technique used to make an exaggeration. It is not real because this a far stretched way of how things occur or occurred. The sentence that was given follows this. People cannot sleep for a decade in actuality. Therefore, it is an exaggeration making A: Hyperbole the correct answer.

I hope this helps!! 

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

(4) "oh, i've got better plans than that," laughed kerry. "i've got four firecrackers and two model rockets. care to join me in the backyard? "

this is the correct answer because of one simple word. "backyard"