Read the excerpt from “The Lady, or the Tiger?” In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric.

Which types of descriptive language are used in the excerpt?

metaphor and hyperbole
strong verbs and simile
sensory details and precise adjectives
precise adjectives and strong verbs