Hyperbole and Personification

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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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I was so hungry I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole

• not hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

His new car was as fast as my dad's truck.

• hyperbole

• not hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I had a ton of chores!

• Not hyperbole
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Is this a hyperbole?
Mary will be back in just a second.

• yes
• no

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The piano sang a mournful song. 

• Personification 
• NOT Personification 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The trees dressed up in red and gold to celebrate the start of autumn.

• Personification 
•  NOT Personification 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The heavy hail dented cars and cracked windows.

• Personification 
• NOT Personification 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Personification is not a type of figurative language

• true
• false

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D