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Only you can prevent forest fires overstates one person's power on purpose. That device is:

ACareful parallelism
BBold hyperbole
CPlain understatement
DWarm personification
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Bold hyperbole
1. No single person could do it. 2. The overstatement is deliberate. 3. It is hyperbole. _Source: OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook, Chapter 9, Rhetorical Analysis._
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