Literal Nonliteral Language

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

• Literal

• Nonliteral

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

• 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

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?

"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• 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, "She is as slow as a sloth."

• She is really slow. 

• She can climb trees like a sloth.

• She is really 

What does it really mean? "It's a piece of cake."

• Something is easy.

• Something is delicious.

• Something is soft and warm. 

What does it really mean: "She was pulling my leg."

• She grabbed my leg and tugged on it.

• She hurt my leg.

• She was joking with me.