"going to get massacred"

[blackeyedsusan]

"you'll murder them!"
"we'll get hammered!"
what sort of phrases are these?

[idiot emotion]

Exclamations?! Hyperbole? Figures of speech? Something obscure in Greek?... References to the rubbishness of one team in a game of sport??? Fighting talk? Unacceptable in polite company?

Suitable for a Stag night?

metaphors?

it was a book about football.

we need to talk about the writers use of language. i am stuck.

please don't make me go back to schoool and ask.

Is that in a book for a primary aged kid?
One the teacher asked them to read or a book your dc chose to read?

I guess it sounds better when seen in the context of football.

Future tense?

What age is it your DS/DD? Maybe a teacher will be able to suggest what the year group might be covering/expected to recognise?

it is an ort level 13 book about a football match. one of our, but the same level as one from school. (and slighlty easier to understand believe it or not)

Idioms

Over emotional - it's only a game

Metaphors? Definitely figures of speech. What age is your dc? I think dd is expected to know about figures of speech & she is yr 5 . . .

At least I hope they're figures of speech otherwise I reckon the book isn't suitable for primary age

They are irresponsible hooligans and it's certainly not cricket.

Since hyperbole, idioms and metaphors are all figures of speech, the safe option is to call them figures of speech.

The first thing I thought of when I read them was football.

I'm not sure describing them as football phrases would win you many points, though, when the whole book is already known to be about football.

figures of speech it is then. (takes safe option)

we ae just starting out on talking about the language in books, but these phrases needed explaining (easy part) but knowing what sort of phrrases they were defeated me.