Identifying and Using Hyperbole

I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

• Hyperbole

• Hyperbolie

• Hyperbale

• Hyperboly

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The final exam was easy as  ABC!

• Simile 

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

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Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things

• exaggerate

• give person-like qualities to animals and things

• have a different meaning than the words.

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After using Lina's hair shampoo, my hair is as long as the Nile River.

• Not a hyperbole

• Hyperbole

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Mrs. Boggs is always working!

• Hyperbole

• Not a Hyperbole

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You'e got a smile that can light up this whole town.

• Hyperbole

• Not a Hyperbole

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Ethan’s smile is a mile wide.

• Metaphor 

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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Kozmy is so big he could break a tower!

• Hyperbole

• Hyperbolie

• Hyperbale

• Hyperboly

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Look at the sentence. What type of figurative language is being used?
Kae was so bored he was pulling his hair out!

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

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I would swim a thousand seas to get to my son,

• Hypebole

• Not a hyperbole

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