What does the hyperbole in this text suggest?
Last August, you could fry an egg on the sidewalk in Austin.
It is no longer possible to fry an egg on the sidewalk in Austin. Austin was extremely hot last August.
Figures of speech are words or phrases that use language in a nonliteral or unusual way. They can make writing more expressive.
Hyperbole is an obvious exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally.
I ate so much that I think I might explode!
The text uses hyperbole, an obvious exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally.
The hyperbole you could fry an egg on the sidewalk suggests that Austin was extremely hot last August. You could not literally fry an egg on the sidewalk.