Weegy: Hyperbole is a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
User: Read the following lines of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and answer the question that follows.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
The first line is an example of which type of figurative language?
A.
simile
B.
metaphor
C.
synecdoche
D.
personification
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