Similes, Metaphors, Hyperbole and Personification

What is personification?

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

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What's the meaning of this personification?
"The camera loves me!"

• Photography is one of my hobbies.
• I own an expensive camera.
• Photos of me are always really good. 
• I like to visit art museums.

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Give an example of personification

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse
• The sun is like a light bulb
• The Sun smiled at us
• I want to be awesome

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What is a hyperbole?

• An extreme exaggeration
• A little exaggeration
• Similar sounds
• It uses like or as

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Look at the sentence. What type of figurative language did they use?
Kae was so bored he was pulling his hair out!

• metaphor
• simile
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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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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Which of these is a hyperbole?

• I had an ocean of water to drink.
• I drank a lot.
• Chad drinks more than anyone.
• I love water!

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Identify the simile

• I like apples.
• Apples taste sweet.
• You're the apple of my eye.
• This apple is as sweet as candy.

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Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

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Simile or Metaphor:
My father is a bear in the morning.

• simile
• metaphor

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