Literary device

I can smell pizza from a mile away.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

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"My backpack weighs a ton" What does this mean?

• The backpack is very heavy.

• The backpack is light.

• It has nothing to do with the backpack.

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I'm so hungry I could eat a cow.

• Hyperbole
• Not hyperbole

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The shopping cost me a million dollars.

• Hyperbole

• Irony

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I could sleep for an hour.

• Hyperbole

• Not a hyperbole

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Ms. Howard is the best teacher in the whole world.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification

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I have so much homework my bookbag weighs a million pounds.
Which figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Metaphor

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Which of these is a hyperbole?

• The boy was taller then me.
• He had a bite-sized candy bar.
• They lived in a small house.
• The boy was taller than Earth.

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This type of figurative language occurs when you exaggerate a great deal (e. g. "I am starving" instead of "I'm feeling a little hungry")

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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My brain is the size of a pea.

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

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