Literal or Figurative

Determine whether the expression below is meat to be figurative or literal. "My teacher told me to pull myself together after my argument with a classmate."

• Figurative

• Literal

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

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He has a sweetheart back home.

• literal

• figurative

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a broken heart

• literal

• figurative

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An average heart is the size of your fist.

• literal

• figurative

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a heart-healthy snack

• literal

• figurative

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from the bottom of my heart

• literal

• figurative

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I can play the piano by heart.

• literal

• figurative

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Exercise can make your heart stronger.

• literal

• figurative