The secret garden

read the passage.

the most absorbing thing, however, was the preparations to be made before colin could be transported with sufficient secrecy to the it was almost as serious and elaborately thought out as the plans of march made by great generals in time of war.

which best identifies an example of hyperbole from the passage?

a. "the most absorbing thing"

b. "transported with sufficient secrecy"

c. "the plans of march made by great generals in time of war"

d. "the preparations to be made before colin could be transported"

The correct answer is the letter C.

The explanation for my choosing the letter c as the right answer is that hyperbole is the expression of exaggeration. It is a figure of language classified as a figure of thought. And for this very reason, it is a stylistic resource capable of increasing the expressiveness of the text. It has a special particularity, it is the figure that makes everything very exaggerated, besides the real .

In this text, there is an exaggeration in comparing the preparations to take Colin into the garden, with the preparations made by generals of war. Therefore, the letter C shows an example of hyperbole.

the sentence that avoid faulty coordination is:

culture, which is well represented in philadelphia, plays a major role including theatre, music, and the visual arts.  

faulty coordination occurs when the writer gives equal importance two different ideas (clauses) which in fact are not equivalent. in order to correct a misplaced clause or idea, the writer can place less important or emphatic ideas in a relative clause as in the previous sentence.