Hyperbole Lesson

The sun greeted the whole city with a big smile.

• Hyperbole

• Irony

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I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

• Hyperbole

• Hyperbolie

• Hyperbale

• Hyperboly

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She was so pretty my eyes popped out!

• Onomatopia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Hiperbole

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He was so hideous I got blind!

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

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I was so angry that I kicked an elephant all the way to Mars!

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

• Alliteration

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I am the richest man in the world!

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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Ethan’s smile is a mile wide.

• Metaphor 

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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Wilshane has tons of video games.

• Hyperbolie

• Hyperbali

• Hyperbole

• Hyperboly

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Which of the following sentences contains a hyperbole?

• The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

• The sun was a golden ball in the sky.

• I have a million things to do today.

• The wind whispered through the trees.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Identify the hyperbole in the following sentence: 'I've told you a thousand times to clean your room!'

• I've told you

• a thousand times

• to clean your room

• None of the above

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A