Asked by Dakota

Read this sentence.

After I ran my first marathon, I went home and slept for a week.

Which type of figurative language does the author use in this sentence?


personification


metaphor


hyperbole


simile

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Hyperbole.

It's an obvious exaggeration — the speaker didn't literally sleep for an entire week; it's overstated to emphasize how tired they were.