Literal vs Nonliteral Language

My little sister was playing with toy cars. She drove them over the carpet, the kitchen floor, and the coffee table. She even drove them up the walls!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

I've told you a million times!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

It's raining cats and dogs out there!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

"If you think I'm going to tell the scary upstairs neighbor that his music is too loud, you're nuts!"

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Please pick up your art supplies and put them away.

• Literal

• Nonliteral

There was a little bird sitting outside my window chirping and whistling all day long. It drove me up the wall!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

When I got home from school, I was hungry enough to eat a horse!

• Literal
• Nonliteral

If I live to be one thousand years old, I will never understand the paintings in this museum.

• Nonliteral Meaning

• Literal Meaning

That girl is as skinny as a twig!

• Literal 
• Nonliteral

Determine whether the expression below is meant to be figurative or literal.

"My brother says that I will not pass math until pigs fly."

• Figurative

• Literal