Read the following excerpt from mark twain's life on the mississippi
when i was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition
among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the
mississippi river. that was to be a steamboatman. we
had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only
transient. when a circus came and went, it left us all
burning to become clowns, the first negro minstrel show
that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that
kind of life, now and then we had a hope that, if we lived
and were good, god would permit us to be pirates. these
ambitions faded out, each in its turn, but the ambition to be
a steamboatman always remained.
what is one effect of the hyperbole in this passage?
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a. it makes it sound as if every newcomer who arrived in town
eventually left
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b. it conveys a sense of how strongly the children ached for these
career ambitions
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c. it exaggerates the danger of the children's environment by
suggesting they might not live.
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d. it expresses the idea that career ambitions are easily changed and
should be controlled by god.

c) problem and solution

answer: c

explanation:

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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.