Answer:
A). Hyperbole
Explanation:
Hyperbole is the figure of speech that involves the exaggeration of ideas to provide emphasis or create a specific effect. It is also treated as an intentional overstatement that is inclined to symbolize certain meanings. In the given excerpt, the rhetoric device employed is hyperbole as it is exaggerating the idea of the carnival being less crowdy and calls it 'deserted'. The word 'deserted' for 'carnival' demonstrates the exaggeration or overstatement that reflects the author's purpose to indicate the depleted atmosphere of the carnival. Thus, the answer is option A, i.e. hyperbole.
