Hyperbole and Imagery

How does imagery help us understand the story?

• It doesn't
• By expressing how the author is feeling
• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see
• By telling the mood

Writers create imagery through figurative language.  Which is NOT a type of figurative language.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• theme

The drumbeats sounded like distant thunder.
What type of figurative language is used?

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

After Dan climbed the steep hill, his legs were rubber.
What type of figurative language is used?

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

The owl laughed into the darkness.
What type of figurative language is used?

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

Why is imagery important? Choose the BEST answer. 

• It makes the reader more engaged
• It sounds better
• Because my teacher said so 
• It makes my paper longer

What is the best definition of imagery? 

• Imagery is the author’s use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine what is being described.
  
• An act of saying what will or might happen in the future.
•  A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
• Exaggeration

Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things

• exaggerate

• give person-like qualities to animals and things

• have a different meaning than the words.

I could sleep for an hour.

• Hyperbole

• Not a hyperbole

I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.

• Hyperbole

• Not a Hyperbole