TEKS.ELA.5.10G

How do you know that Thunder Rose is a tall tale?

• It uses exaggerated language and larger than life characters.
• It takes place on a cattle ranch.
• It has cause/effect relationships.
• Thunder Rose is courageous and quick thinking.  

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Muriel complained as she lifted Maria's backpack.  "This thing weighs a ton!!"

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• idiom
• onomatopoeia

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These shoes take 50 million years to put on.

• imagery
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

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TEKS.ELA.4.9B

This sentence is an example of what:  "I have a ton of homework."

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

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TEKS.ELA.4.9B

This sentence is an example of what:  "I’ve seen this movie a thousand times."

• personification
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

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TEKS.ELA.5.9B

An EXTREME exaggeration

• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Irony
• Simile

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I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

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a statement that something is far better or far worse than it really is

• exaggeration
• impress
• fireball
• original

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Choose the answer that is not a hyperbole.

• My house is as big as North America.
• My brother is smaller than a seed.
• I ate a truck-full of food.
• I'm taller then you.

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"I had so much homework, I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home!" What type of figurative language is used here?

• Metaphor 
• Simile 
• Personification 
• Hyperbole 

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