Marie Devers
Advertisements everywhere, I haven’t time to think1
without some local merchant selling me the kitchen sink. 2
All along my childhood, it’s been exceedingly bad— 3
from my diapers to my schoolbooks, there’s always been an ad. 4
Every show is brought to me by business courtesy; 5
every team I’ve been on has been sponsored for a fee. 6
Doesn’t matter what it is, if I’m their demographic, 7
they add MARSHMALLOWS! ‘til I think that I just have to have it. 8
I sing jingles when I read – their persistence is extreme! 9
I find ignoring messages to be a rough routine. 10
From getting up to lying down, the advertisements play, 11
but I’ve learned to lower volume and just to walk away. 12
Future kids will probably find that our great civilization13
was easily told that they’d be sold the world’s next great sensation, 14
so kids like me have got to see that most ads are promotion15
designed to throw a lasso over human beings’ emotion, 16
but happiness cannot be found in catalogs or stores, 17
and the pleasure that they’re marketing may already be yours. 18
Question
"Advertisements everywhere, I haven’t time to think
without some local merchant selling me the kitchen sink."
Which rhetorical device is used in these lines?
Responses
A hyperbolehyperbole
B oxymoronoxymoron
C repetitionrepetition
D similesimile
1 answer
The correct response is A. hyperbole.
Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally, and in this case, the phrase "selling me the kitchen sink" suggests an overwhelming number of advertisements, indicating that there is so much being sold that it goes beyond the reasonable or ordinary.
