My homework says, Read the following sentence and tell what figurative language devise is used , and the definition of that figurative language devise

Question

the sentence is "I would love to help you but I have a million things to do". I really suck at this stuff

Answer 1

"I would love to help but I have a million things to do." No one, under most circumstances would have a million things to do that day. The word a million males you think of an extremely large quantity, so the use of the word million helps get across the idea that the person has their hands full.