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Which Figure of Speech is Used in the Lines: (Last Week in Someone’S Place We Saw a Dozen Eyeballs on the Floor.) - English 2 (Literature in English)

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प्रश्न

Which figure of speech is used in the lines:
(Last week in someone’s place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)

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उत्तर

The poet has used hyperbole to exaggerate.

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