The rhetorical device that is demonstrated in the excerpt is Hyperbole.
This refers to the figure of speech that makes use of exaggerations or over-statements to create a dramatic effect or to make an emphasis.
Hence, we can see that from the complete text, there is the narration of the description by the narrator that he does not own a cent and this is an obvious exaggeration to show that he had no money.
Hyperbole is also used as he talks about her nearly killing herself with laughter and laughing herself lame which are all obvious exaggerations.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.
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Read the excerpt from Mark Twain's "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note". Well, I was perfectly honest and square with her; told her I hadn't a cent in the world but just the million-pound note she'd heard so much talk about, and it didn't belong to me, and that started her curiosity; and then I talked low, and told her the whole history right from the start, and it nearly killed her laughing.
What in the nation she could find to laugh about I couldn't see, but there it was; every half-minute some new detail would fetch her, and I would have to stop as much as a minute and a half to give her a chance to settle down again. Why, she laughed herself lame--she did, indeed; I never saw anything like it. I mean I never saw a painful story--a story of a person's troubles and worries and fears--produce just that kind of effect before.
Which rhetorical device is demonstrated in the excerpt? A. hyperbole B. allusion C. metaphor D. oxymoron
