Literal and Nonliteral Language

I am extremely bored.

• Literal

• Non-Literal

I’m dying of boredom.

• Literal

• Non-Literal

Living with my brothers and sisters is like living in the middle of a circus.

• Literal

• Non-Literal

The sun was shining all day.

• Literal

• Non-Literal

That day, the sun smiled upon us.

• Literal

• Non-Literal

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Literal

• Non-Literal

That noise was driving me up a wall.

• Literal

• Non-Literal

My emotions are an open book.

• Literal

• Non-Literal

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

• Literal

• Non-Literal

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

• Literal

• Nonliteral