Sort each example of figurative language into the correct column.

Bright flowers were waving to me.

Personification

Hyperbole

The old car groaned in protest.

Everybody knows Alexander

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

The wind screamed with anger.

The bag weighed a ton

Personifications: "Bright flowers were waving to me"

"The old cat groaned in protest"

"The wind screamed in anger"

Hyperboles: "Everybody knows Alexander"

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"

"The bag weighed a ton"

Explanation:

Personifications give human characteristics to non living objects, while hyperboles are exaggerations.