On Shirley Abbott’s Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South (1998)
Which of the following is most likely a deliberate exaggeration?
Select one:
a. “the water gushes milky and sulphurous’’ (lines 8-9)
b. “For a thousand years before him’’ (line 16)
c. “back rooms and dives in which no respectable person would be seen’’ (lines 38-39)
d. “women in silk suits . . . who owned stables of thoroughbreds’’ (lines 45-47)
e. “ninety kinds of hamburger stand’’ (line 57-58)
