Personification & Hyperbole

I was so hungry I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole

• not hyperbole

My mom is going to kill me if I don't complete my homework.

• Not a Hypebole
• Hyperbole

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An 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.

The trees dressed up in red and gold to celebrate the start of autumn.

• Personification 
•  NOT Personification 

My flowers were begging me to water them.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

I know my other sock is hiding from me somewhere in this room.

• Personification
• NOT Personification