Activity #1: What does it really mean?
Read the following HYPERBOLIC STATEMENTS and in the box next to it, write down what you think it means.
This work is going to take me years to finish! | The work was so overdue it felt impossible to complete. |
I love you to the moon and back! | My heart is so big that my love is unexplainable. |
My feet are killing me | I’ve run so much the bottom of my foot had a devastating ache to it. |
Cry me a river | Go cry a heap of tears till sunset. |
I have a pit in my stomach | My stomach battled my inner body. |
I walked a million miles to get here | My distance walk felt like it went on forever. |
Our car cost an arm and a leg | Car was so expensive that not even bill gates could afford it. |
She was so mad, she was spitting bullets | Flabbergasting words started shooting out of her mouth. |
Activity #2: Write 5 of your own Hyperbole’s and see if a classmate can guess what it means.
Can you guess mine?
“She runs like the wind”
He was so strong he could lift an universe
Not even Albert Einstein could come to the conclusion on what he was thinking about
Our sugar rush could go on for more than a century could last
I had the hold world in my hands
My things had a huge kick to it
My company fell to its knees due to the impact
Ill be there in 2 seconds
I'm in a whole lot of trouble my dads gonna kill me
Her face traumatized me for a century of years to come