Which of these sentences from “with a little from my friends” uses hyperbole?

a. "now i won't bore you with religion," he said, "but let me tell you about the petroleum industry."
b. "it's a persian cat," she said. that was news to us; the only cats we had ever seen back home were the mangy strays that ate scraps behind people's houses.
c. i, however, never punched anybody with my fists; i used words.
d. my friends considered visiting their grandmothers in oregon to be a long trip, so visiting me in iran was like taking a left turn at the next moon.

Tell which of the following is a run-on sentence. sentence 1: those huge pickles in the jar! sentence 2: she went to john’s house he wasn’t home she was upset. sentence 3: he ate so much pepperoni pizza last weekend that he never wanted to see one again.

Now you will do a special kind of problem. you will use the blue boxes below to put events of the story "the baby-sitter" in correct order. each blue box has seven sentences inside it. click the first blue box until you see the first thing that happened in the story. then go on to the next box and the next thing that happened. the last thing that happened should be in the last box. you may need to look back at the story to you remember. if you change your mind at any time while you are working the problem, you can return to a box and click to find a different sentence. when you are all finished, you will be able to read down the list of sentences and see all seven events from the story in the right order. mary jo began to read the alphabet book. mary jo couldn't move. mother asked mary jo to baby-sit. jimmy was very quiet. he had fallen asleep. jimmy to read the book. mother said, "you are a very good baby-sitter." mother picked up sleeping jimmy.

Which statement best describes the intended aesthetic impact of this excerpt?