Literal Nonliteral Language

Determine whether the expression below is meat to be figurative or literal. "My brother says that I will not pass math until pigs fly."

• Figurative

• Literal

Determine whether the expression below is meat to be figurative or literal. "I could barely speak because I had a frog in my throat from yelling at the concert."

• Figurative

• Literal

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

My little sister was playing with toy cars. She drove them over the carpet, the kitchen floor, and the coffee table. She even drove them up the walls!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

This room is an oven!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

I've told you a million times!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

My friend leaned over to me before we went on stage and said, "I have butterflies in my tummy!"

• Literal

• Nonliteral

It's raining cats and dogs out there!

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Mrs. Messina always tells me, "You're a nut!"

• Literal

• Nonliteral

Sarah told her friend a secret and then her friend told the whole class. That left a bad taste in Sarah's mouth.

• Literal

• Nonliteral