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What is a hyperbole?
a) a figure of speech which exaggerates
b) words which are used to describe a sound
c) a phrase which has not literal meaning to a situation
d) gives an inanimate object a sense of being alive

Which is an example of a hyperbole?
a) I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
b) Buzz, buzz
c) The boy was as tall as a tower.
d) The snow is a white blanket.

What is an onomatopoeia
a) Two unlike things are compared NOT using like or as.
b) Humanlike characteristics are given to a non-human
c) A word that sounds like an object
d) Exaggeration that are not meant to be taken seriously.

Which is an example of an onomatopoeia.
a) The sky is crying.
b) choo-choo
c) She was a breath of fresh air.
d) It is raining cats and dogs.

Which one is a hyperbole?
a) It is raining cats and dogs.
b) The sky is crying.
c) hiss, hiss
d) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

squeak, squeak
a) metaphor
b) hyperbole
c) onomatopoeia
d) smiile

The bag of gifts weighs a ton!!
a) simile
b) hypebole
c) metephor
d) idiom

The walk was a million miles long.
a) simile
b) Buzz, buzz
c) a phrase which has not literal meaning to a situation
d) hyperbole

click, click
a) onomatopoeia
b) Buzz, buzz
c) a phrase which has not literal meaning to a situation
d) The snow is a white blanket.

I ate five-thousand pancakes for breakfast
a) hyperbole
b) Buzz, buzz
c) a phrase which has not literal meaning to a situation
d) The snow is a white blanket.

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