Figures of Speech

Initial Task 1:
Looking inside your bag, you pick one thing that best resembles you. Be able to explain your answer in class.

Initial Task 2:
List the down as many as you can the figures of speech that you know.

Initial Task 3:
Recognizing Figurative Language Instructions: Put a check on the blank if the sentence uses figurative language; otherwise, leave it blank.

Recognizing Figurative Language

__1. Time made him gray.

__2. His hair turned gray when he grew older.

__3. His hair, like a black cloud of smoke, slowly turned gray.

Recognizing Figurative Language

___4. A flower garden is a box of crayons in bloom. __3. A flower garden has many pretty colors in it close together.

Recognizing Figurative Language

__6. When he held the ice, he felt shivers down the spine. __7. The ice cube froze his spine. __8. Holding the ice cube was like lying on a frozen pond.

Recognizing Figurative Language

__9. The rain washed away their troubles. __10. They felt better after it had rained.

What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?

Figurative Language
is a departure from the ordinary form of expression in order to produce a greater effect Use of words in a sense different from their literal definitions

Figures of Speech based on Resemblance

FS based on Resemblance
1. Simile States comparisons through the use of like, as, resembles, or similar to. Ex. The old mans voice was as creaky as feet on old worn steps.

FS based on Resemblance
2. Metaphor an implied comparison between 2 unlike objects that are alike in the way they are identified. Ex. The train is steel snake coiling the way through the mountains.

FS based on Resemblance
3. Personification is giving human traits to a non-human subject Ex. The flowers bowed to her as she passed.

Drill 1
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FS based on Resemblance
4. Apostrophe Is addressing personified objects as real persons, the absent as if they were present, and the dead as if they were alive. Ex. Ambition, you have been a cruel master. I will serve you no more!

FS based on Resemblance
5. Allusion Is a reference to a wellknown person, event, saying, or thing. Ex. You are such an Einstein!

FS based on Resemblance
6. Metonymy One object is used to represent or recall another which it closely suggests May I speak with the Chair?

FS based on Resemblance
7. Synecdoche A part may be used or made to mean a whole Ex. I have nine mouths to feed at home.

Figures of Speech according to Emphasis

FS according to Emphasis
1. Hyperbole Is an exaggeration or overstatement Ex. If the river is dry, I am able to fill it with tears.

FS according to Emphasis
2. Litotes Denial of its opposite Ex. You are not unattractive.

Drill 2
Identify the figure of speech used. 1. Hope is the nurse of life. 2. O Wind if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? 3. He was taller than the hills. 4. Fifty sails entered the harbor. 5. He has the patience of Job.

Seatwork
Identify the figure of speech. 1. Her eyes were mute and in their naked depths reposed an unspoken pain. 2. The tumult reached the stars. 3. I see the daylight vanish like a dream.

4. The garment factory employs one thousand hands. 5. Men call upon Moses to deliver them. 6. Rizal! See the fair hope of the Fatherland. 7. Wit is a dangerous weapon.

8. The walking dictionary amused the audience with her way of words. 9. The famine walks the land. 10. She is not disrespectful to the authority.

Figures of Speech according to Contrast

FS according to Contrast
1. Antithesis bringing out of contrast in the ideas in the ideas by an obvious contrast within a parallel grammatical structure. Ex. Man proposes, God disposes.

FS according to Contrast
2. Oxymoron Combines contradictory terms Ex. dark light living dead open secret

FS according to Contrast
3. Paradox A statement which appears to contradict itself. Ex. War is peace. Ignorance is strength.

FS according to Contrast
4. Understatement/ irony An expression means something the opposite or very contrary to its literal meaning Ex. The homeless survived in their cardboard palaces.

Figures of Speech according to Sound Effects

FS according to Sound Effects

1. Alliteration Repetition of the initial consonant sounds in words. Ex. Its a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds cries.

FS according to Sound Effects

2. Assonance Recurrence in words that are close together of the same vowel sound. Ex. I was living at home where folks were growing old.

FS according to Sound Effects

3. Onomatopoeia Uses a word whose sound suggests the meaning or tone Ex. I heard the buzzing of the bees and hissing of the snakes.

FS according to Sound Effects

4. Anaphora Repetition of word or phrase Ex. good food, good cheer, good times Canons to the left, canons to the right

Drill 3
Identify the FS. 1. But the prisoner would not answer, he only lay with wide, dark, bright eyes, like a bound animal. 2. You have a lot of work to do. Ill lend you a hand. 3. Bullets whizzed or ripped the air and spangled into the tree.

4. Betty Botter brought bits of bitter butter.

5. Many are called, but few are chosen.