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A Million Meatballs
Hyperbole: exaggeration on purpose
Lesson 8 of 12 Year 5
Task 1 gives the letter of the right option as printed on the sheet. Task 2 lists the mistakes in the order they appear, with the correction. Task 3 and 4 answers are models, not the only acceptable wording: any answer that uses the rule the lesson taught should be credited.
MildHyperbole is a huge exaggeration. I've told you a million times! Nobody really counted!
1 · Tick the hyperbole
a Ab Bc Ad BA = left option, B = right option
3 · Now you write
Model answers
My bag weighs a tonne.
I'm so tired I could sleep for a year.
My homework pile is taller than a house.
4 · Help Polpetta
Gino is not lying. Hotter than the sun is hyperbole: nobody believes it, so nobody is tricked. He means his soup is very hot.
2 · Find the 3 flat lines
1
The soup was hot.
The soup was hotter than the sun.
2
I made pasta.
I made a mountain of pasta.
3
The bread was hard.
The bread was so hard it broke the table.
The best day in the history of the world and the queue going on for miles are already hyperbole (the decoys). Any turn-up that is too big to be true is acceptable.
MediumHyperbole is too big to be true, and everyone knows it. That is why it is not a lie.
1 · Tick the hyperbole
a Ab Bc Bd AA = left option, B = right option
3 · Now you write
Model answers
Tick: it would take a hundred years, the pile reaches the moon · I've got so much homework, it would take a hundred years.
Tick: you could hear a snail blink, you could hear a feather land · The classroom was so quiet you could hear a snail blink.
Tick: they can hear him in Australia, he wakes up the whole planet · My little brother is so loud they can hear him in Australia.
4 · Help Polpetta
A lie tries to trick you; hyperbole is so big that nobody believes it. Example: Gino's soup is so hot it could boil the sea.
2 · Find the 3 flat lines
1
Forty people came for lunch.
A million people came for lunch.
2
Gino served eight tables.
Gino served every table in the country.
3
The dishwasher broke at two o'clock.
The dishwasher broke into a thousand pieces.
Since time began, to the moon and back and a thousand pizzas in an hour are already hyperbole (the decoys). Any turn-up that is too big to be true is acceptable.
SpicyUse hyperbole on purpose: for humour, feeling or drama. Use it everywhere and nothing stands out.
1 · Tick the hyperbole
a Bb Ac Ad BA = left option, B = right option
3 · Now you write
Model answers
The thunder was loud enough to shake the stars. A whole ocean fell on our street. The wind blew our house to the next town.
In a report, a recipe or instructions, because the reader needs true facts: bake for 20 minutes, not a million years.
A lie tries to make you believe something false. Hyperbole is so big that nobody believes it, so nobody is tricked.
4 · Help Polpetta
Hyperbole is not a lie because it is too big to believe, so nobody is tricked. Menu board: the best pizza in the whole universe!
2 · Find the 4 flat lines
1
My alarm rang at seven.
My alarm rang loud enough to wake the whole country.
2
I ate some toast.
I ate a mountain of toast.
3
I sat next to Lina.
I sat next to Lina, who talked for a thousand years.
4
We had maths first.
We had maths first, and it lasted a century.
The worst morning in the history of mornings, slept until next year and a hundred years for the bus are already hyperbole (the decoys).