Q. What type of figurative language is this:
"That suitcase weighed a thousand pounds"

1. Simile

2.Metaphor

3.Hyperbole

4.Personification

Hyperbole.

Explanation: The suitcase doesn't really weigh a thousand pounds; the author uses extreme exaggeration to give the reader a better idea of the suitcase.

Explanation:

It's not like a thousand pounds: Not A

It's not a thousand pounds: Not B

There is nothing resembling something personal or human: Not D

It's an exaggeration. C

evertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable.

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