Hyperbole Quiz

Which figurative language is this?
 It’s going to take a million years to finish!

• Idiom
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a Hyperbole?

• Statements and claims not to be taken literally
• Comparing two unlike things
• Comparing two unlike things with like or as
• I forgot

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which is an example of hyperbole?

• The apple is as red as a rose
• I am freezing to death
• The trees bow their heads in the wind
• His legs move like a well oiled machine

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which is NOT an example of hyperbole?

• I ate so much I might explode
• The noise was so loud it shook the earth
• The tree was so tall it  touched space
• My dad is at work a lot

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which literary element is defined by extreme exaggeration for emphasis?

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Hyperoble

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"I am so tired, I could sleep for a year," is an example of:

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Yumin is the best speller in the class is an example of a hyperbole.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Jedi is growing so fast, soon he'll be taller than the trees" is an example of a hyperbole.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A girl finishes a test and says, "That test was so easy a dog could pass it."

• hyperoble
• understatement
• I don't feel like answering
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Hyperbole is an exaggeration often used for emphasis.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A