Literal or Figurative

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

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

I've told you a million times!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

It's raining cats and dogs out there!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

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

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Please pick up your art supplies and put them away.

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

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

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

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

• Literal
• Nonliteral

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

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

• Nonliteral Meaning

• Literal Meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

That girl is as skinny as a twig!

• Literal 
• Nonliteral

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

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

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4