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A Million Meatballs

Hyperbole: exaggeration on purpose

Lesson 8
Mild
Name
Date
Chef Polpetta

Hyperbole is a huge exaggeration. I've told you a million times! Nobody really counted!

1

Tick the hyperbole

aMy bag weighs a tonne!My bag is quite heavy.hyperbole
bI waited for ten minutes.I waited for a hundred years!hyperbole
cI'm so hungry I could eat a mountain!I'm hungry, so I'll have lunch.hyperbole
dThe pizza was big.The pizza was bigger than the town!hyperbole
2

Find the 3 flat lines

Today was the best day in the history of the world! The soup was hot. The queue went on for miles. I made pasta. The bread was hard.
Two lines are already hyperbole. Leave them alone.
Write the corrections here
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Lesson 8 · Mild · side 2

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Now you write

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Word banktonnemillionforevermountainmiles
a Turn it up! My bag is heavy.
My bag weighs
b Turn it up! I am very tired.
I'm so tired I could
c Turn it up! I have lots of homework.
My homework pile is
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Help Polpetta

Chef Polpetta

Gino said his soup is hotter than the sun! So Gino told a big fib. Perfetto, no?

Tell Polpetta why Gino is not lying.
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