Read the sentences and answer the question that follows:

i stared at the mountain of homework on my desk. it would take me a million years to complete all these assignments!

why does the narrator use the phrase a million years in this text?

a. to explain why she had waited so long to begin working on her homework

b. to give an approximate amount of time over which her homework increased

c. to playfully exaggerate the time needed to complete her homework

d. to provide a literal prediction of the time required to do the assignments

C. To playfully exaggerate the time needed to complete her homework. just took the test

Explanation:

this quote could be referring to the death penalty. it's questioning the morality of sentencing murderers to death as a punishment, because it seems hypocritical. this quote seems to be arguing for non-lethal punishment for killers.

one thousand and one nights, also known as arabian nights is a collection of stories whose basic structure is that of embedded narrative. this technique refers to a main story which works as the common frame - or framing narrative - for the other stories, and then this series of stories which are connected to the main one. this technique can also be referred to as a story within a story. the stories stem from the original tale, some begin and end on their own, some are connected to the previous or following one, by means of questions that are answered in the subsequent tale, or characters which reappear.