“left alone in the classroom, the first graders went berserk and destroyed everything in their wake”
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. hyperbole
D. alliteration
E. allusion
F. onomatopoeia
G.personification
H. idiom
A hyperbole is an exaggeration. Since the first graders couldn't have really "destroyed everything in their wake”, this quote is an example of a hyperbole.
