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Which type of figurative language does Robert Louis Stevenson use to describe his shadow?
"For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all."
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
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Hyperbole.
The lines exaggerate how the shadow changes — "shoots up taller" and "gets so little that there's none of him at all" — which is an example of hyperbole (an exaggerated description).
The lines exaggerate how the shadow changes — "shoots up taller" and "gets so little that there's none of him at all" — which is an example of hyperbole (an exaggerated description).
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