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Use the paragraph to answer the question.%0D%0A%0D%0AIn spite of short rations she gave enough milk to keep six men busy skimming the cream. If she had been kept in a barn and fed regularly she might have made a milking record. When she fed on the evergreen trees and her milk got so strong of White Pine and Balsam that the men used it for cough medicine and liniment, they quit serving the milk on the table and made butter out of it. By using this butter, to grease the logging roads when the snow and ice thawed off, Paul was able to run big logging sleds all summer.%0D%0A%0D%0AWhich is the best interpretation of the role of the hyperbole in this paragraph?%0D%0A%0D%0A(1 point)%0D%0AResponses%0D%0A%0D%0AIt is meant to emphasize the amount of milk the cow produced.%0D%0AIt is meant to emphasize the amount of milk the cow produced.%0D%0A%0D%0AIt is meant to emphasize the creativity of the crew.%0D%0AIt is meant to emphasize the creativity of the crew.%0D%0A%0D%0AIt is meant to emphasize the way people interacted with their animals.%0D%0AIt is meant to

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It is meant to emphasize the creativity of the crew. The exaggerations show how inventively they repurposed the cow’s milk (from medicine to road grease), not just the sheer quantity.