Joy is reading a passage from her favorite story. she enjoys the passage because of the deliberate exaggeration. the writer describes people, things or events as if they were much greater than they really are. which literary device is the author using?

The literary device that the author used in the passage is hyperbole. A hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses extreme overstatement or exaggeration to have a humorous, ironic, or heightened dramatic effects. 

Example: I am so hungry I could eat an elephant.