Hyperbole or Literal?
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Hyperbole or Literal?
Hyperbole worksheet for Grades 6 to 8: is each sentence a hyperbole, such as a backpack that weighs a ton, or literal, true word for word? Twelve sentences, with an answer key.
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HyperboleA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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Tell a hyperbole from a literal sentence and say what it really means, work out what an allusion to a myth, fable, book or event means and where it comes from, see what a speaker using verbal irony really means, spot a pun, and say what an extended metaphor compares.
Reviewed by Mr. James Anderson, Teacher and Mr. Michael Sullivan, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Have the child say what the words really mean in plain words.
- For similes and metaphors, have the child name the two things compared and what they share.
- Look for figurative language in songs, ads and books afterwards.
Common mistakes
- Calling every comparison a simile. A simile uses like or as.
- Reading idioms literally, such as "it is raining cats and dogs".
- Mixing up personification, giving a thing human actions, and a metaphor.
