Literal and Nonliteral Language

I've told you a million times!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

It's raining cats and dogs out there!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Please pick up your art supplies and put them away.

• Literal

• Nonliteral

During P.E. the soccer ball was bouncing off the wall.

• Literal

• Nonliteral

During P.E. the students were bouncing off the walls!

• Literal 

• Nonliteral

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

• Literal

• Nonliteral

What is the nonliteral meaning of this phrase: It cost my mom an arm and a leg to buy that new game.

• The mom paid with an arm and a leg.

• It did not cost a lot.

• It was free.

• It cost a lot.

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

• Nonliteral Meaning

• Literal Meaning

What's the meaning?

• Her hair is red.

• She talks really loudly.

• She gets really angry.

• She spits when she talks.

What does the author mean when they say, "I'm feeling blue"

• I am turning blue in the face.

• I am feeling sad.

• I am really cold.