In my exhaustion, in my overwhelming exhaustion, i forgot all other obligations and went to sleep. what type of rhetorical device is used in the above example? a. eponym b. apophasis c. anastrophe d. amplification

Eponym refers to a rhetorical device that is a person, place, or thing from which something takes its name. Apophasis is the denial of one's intentipn to speak of a subject. Anastrophe is when the writer inverts the words in a sentence, saying, or idea. Amplification on the other hand refers to the act of extending thoughts or statement. It usually add an exaggeration. 

So in this case, the correct answer is Amplification.