“I was so anxious to see it kept entire, lest the goats should break through, that I never left off till, with infinite labour, I had stuck the outside of the hedge…full of stakes…”

—Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
I think it is C

Understatement

Overstatement

Ambiguity

Sarcasm

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I think it is not really full of stakes, therefore it is overstatement.
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