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Use the story "Feeding the Work Crew" to answer the question.
Feeding the Work Crew
Paul Bunyan and his crew worked all over the northern territories. Feeding the crew was hard. The men were very big, and they needed a lot of food. One day, a visitor stopped by the camp. He saw workers unloading logs into a trap door. Steam rose from the door.
“That’s no place for logs,” said the visitor.
“Those aren’t logs,” grinned the cook. “They’re sausages for the boys’ breakfast!”
Another time, a new cook filled up the kettle with beans and added water. The beans bubbled up on the fire. They swelled up so big they lifted off the roof of the kitchen. The workers had to eat their way into the kitchen to save the cook.
Paul’s blue ox, Babe, was seven axe handles wide between the eyes. Babe could eat fifty bales of hay, wire and all. When Babe ran away, he’d be gone for days. His tracks were so deep that many people fell in and had to be rescued. Babe’s tracks formed the thousands of lakes that you can see in Minnesota today.
Which detail from the story shows exaggeration?
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Responses
“The beans bubbled up on the fire.”
“The beans bubbled up on the fire.”
“Feeding the crew was hard.”
“Feeding the crew was hard.”
“Paul Bunyan and his crew worked all over the northern territories.”
“Paul Bunyan and his crew worked all over the northern territories.”
“They swelled up so big they lifted off the roof of the kitchen.”
“They swelled up so big they lifted off the roof of the kitchen.”
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The detail from the story that shows exaggeration is:
“They swelled up so big they lifted off the roof of the kitchen.”
This statement uses hyperbole—an extreme exaggeration—to emphasize the size of the beans in a humorous way, as it is not physically possible for beans to lift a roof.
