Question

use the paragraph to answer the question.
in spite of short rations she gave enough milk to keep six men busy skimming the cream. if she had been kept in a barn and fed regularly she might have made a milking record. when she fed on the evergreen trees and her milk got so strong of white pine and balsam that the men used it for cough medicine and liniment, they quit serving the milk on the table and made butter out of it. by using this butter, to grease the logging roads when the snow and ice thawed off, paul was able to run big logging sleds all summer.
which is the best interpretation of the role of the hyperbole in this paragraph?
(1 point)
it is meant to emphasize the amount of milk the cow produced.
it is meant to emphasize the creativity of the crew.
it is meant to emphasize the way people interacted with their animals.
it is meant to emphasize the ways of life of people from long ago.

Explanation:

Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement. The text says "In spite of short rations she gave enough milk to keep six men busy skimming the cream". This exaggeration is clearly about the amount of milk (as skimming cream from a large amount of milk would take time for six men). The other options (creativity of crew, interaction with animals, ways of life long ago) are not related to the hyperbolic statement about the milk quantity.

Answer:

It is meant to emphasize the amount of milk the cow produced.