2. Which is an example of hyperbole?
a. Their eyes were barely visible
b. his tons of flesh had been only so much gossamer
c. massive flesh, like the dewlap of a prize ox
d. the princes, seemed proud of them

B his tons of flesh had been only so much gossamer

Social darwinism refers to the the theory that people who succeed in our economic system will one day out compete those who fail. one day the rich will out succeed the poor so we'll that there will eventually be no more poor