Question

Read the short passage and answer the question that follows:

I stared at the mountain of homework on my desk. It would take me a million years to complete all these assignments!

Why does the narrator use the phrase a million years in this text?

To explain why she had waited so long to begin working on her homework

To give an approximate amount of time over which her homework increased

To playfully exaggerate the time needed to complete her homework

To provide a literal prediction of the time required to do the assignments

Answer 1

I would say number 3.