Do the following sentences contain a hyperbole? I’m so hungry I could eat an entire elephant!

May is the nicest month of the year.

The color on her dress is so bright, it hurt my eyes when I stared at it!

There were a million different thoughts running through her head at one time!

We thought an apple pie would be the best kind of desert for this party.

I ate every bit of my salad that I brought for lunch today.

The roof rose up and down with the rhythm of the loud music from the house.

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Samuel johnson believed that literature should appeal mainly to the scholar, to him the common man, to teach him the common man, to teach and him the king and the parliament

Lisa works 7 hours a day, 7 days a week. how many hours does lisa work in 6 weeks