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Is it Figurative Language?
Is it Figurative Language?
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Introduction to poetry, students ascertain whether a sentence is literal or figurative
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Julia is so smart she’s a walking encyclopedia.
Figurative
Literal
2
When it comes to things that need special care, Hester’s repair work is the best.
Figurative
Literal
3
Hank has a loudspeaker for a month.
Literal
Figurative
4
Our Loan Department provides a speedy detour around the financial traffic jams of life.
Figurative
Literal
5
When the truck was driven onto the ice, it skidded and flipped over.
Literal
Figurative
6
Someone had overturned the trash cans and littered the sidewalk.
Literal
Figurative
7
The water sprayed from the hose with the force of twenty jet engines.
Figurative
Literal
8
There was suddenly a crinkling sound in the television set, and then the picture went blank.
Figurative
Literal
9
The flowers in the garden were shriveled and brown from the hot summer sun.
Figurative
Literal
10
The silent torpedo moved swiftly from the submarine toward the merchant ship.
Literal
Figurative
11
The bulldozer quickly knocked down the remaining wall.
Literal
Figurative
12
The waiter tipped the pizza and the cheese slid onto the salad like a mudslide into a valley.
Figurative
Literal
13
Our two cats looked like a flurry of white cotton as they tumbled across the floor.
Literal
Figurative
14
From the airplane, the green coast looked like a sliver of emerald set in a silver sea.
Literal
Figurative
15
Some people enjoy potatoes with eggs for breakfast.
Literal
Figurative
16
The clouds appeared fluffy and white as they slowly moved across the azure sky.
Literal
Figurative
17
The rose garden is a beautiful quilt of reds, whites, and yellows.
Literal
Figurative
18
The speaker rumbled and roared, burying his audience in an avalanche of words.
Figurative
Literal
19
That little dog can be as brave as a lion.
Figurative
Literal
20
Andres was an explosion in the otherwise quiet house.
Literal
Figurative
21
The busy storekeeper growled at us like an old grizzly bear.
Figurative
Literal
22
The cost of all this sports equipment is so high I’ll have to borrow money from my father.
Literal
Figurative
23
The hail is coming down so fast it sounds like machine gun bullets.
Literal
Figurative
24
The steeple towered two hundred feet above the surrounding village.
Literal
Figurative
25
The race car was balanced on the curve, like a model plane flown on a string in a tight circle.
Figurative
Literal
