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Select the correct text in the passage Which sentences in this excerpt from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn use hyperbole?
He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly. Well, likely it was
minutes and minutes that there warnt a sound, and we all there so close together. There was a place on my ankle that got to itching, but I
dasn't scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders. Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch.
Well, Ive noticed that thing plenty times since. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy-if
you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. Pretty soon Jim says:
"Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn'hear sumfn. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: l's gwyne to set down here and listen
tell I hears it agin."

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