āleft alone in the classroom, the first graders went berserk and destroyed everything in their wakeā
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 wakeā, this quote is an example of a hyperbole.
