FIGURE OF

SPEECH
 Whenever you describe
something by comparing it
with something else, you are
using figurative language.
Different kinds of figure of speech
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Irony
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Hyperbole
 Simile
1. The rose is
red as a
shinny apple.
2. Gorge is like
a sheep.
3. He eats
like a pig.

4. She is silly
as a clown.
What is Simile?
It is a
comparison of
two unlike
things using
like or as.
 Which of the following is an
example of simile?
1. Janine is an apple
in her father's eyes.
2. Her teeth is as
white as snow.
3. She looks like a
doll.
Metaphor
1. Daisy's eyes
are jewels
sparkling in
the sun.
The bottom of
the ocean is
a dark cave.
3.George is
a giraffe.

4. The
beggar's
hair is
straw.
 What is metaphor?
It is like simile.It
compares two unlike
things but does not
use like or as. A
simile would say
"You are like a lion"
and a metaphor
would say "You are a
lion." You are like a lion.
Which of the following is not metaphor?
1. Her nose is a
hill.
2. The hat is like a
crown.
3. Mimi is as
beautiful as the
rose in the garden.
 Hyperbole
1. His feet are as big
as boats.
2. He was so hungry,
he ate the whole
cow for lunch.
3. He is too tall
that his head
bumps in the sky.
What is Hyperbole?
It is an
exaggeration
or an
overstatement
.
 Which of the following are
hyperbole?
1. His brain is a size
of a pea.
2. He has tons of
money.
3. Carlos' eyes are
too sharp that they
cut the lady.
 Personification
1. My teddy bear
gives me a hug.
2. The flowers
danced in the
breeze.
3. The sun winks
on me.
What is personification?
It is where
human
characteristics
are given to
an animals or
objects.
 Irony
1. She is very beautiful
that no one admires her.
2. The scientific genius,
Albert Einstein flunked
out of Math when he
was in high school.
3. Jonah is very wealthy
that he has no food to
eat.
 What is irony?
It is a literary
technique that
involves
surprising,
interesting, or
amusing
contradictions.A
contrast between
expectation and
 Alliteration
1. Sally sells
seashells by the
seashore.
2. Peter Piper picked
a peck of pickled
peppers.
3. The soul selects
her own society.
What is alliteration?
It is the
repetition
of an
initial
consonant
sound.
 Onomatopoeia
1.Clap! Clap!
Clap!
2. The boom of
the explosion
3. The tik-tak of
a clock
 What is onomatopoeia?
It is a
word that
imitates the
sound it
represents.
 Tell what kind of figure of speech is
used in the following:
1. Life is a beach.
________

_____2. The river falls under

us like a trap door.
_____3. The wooly walrus
wonders when will walk by.
_____4. The glass vase is as
fragile as a child's sand
castle.
_____5. My brother is so skinny
that he could be a telephone
pole.
_____6. After we moved out,
our house was an empty
shell.
Application:
Have pupils
make
sentences
using of any
of the sound
device
Generalization:
What are the
different
kinds of
figure of
speech?
Assessment:
Write S if the sentence is simile, M
if metaphor, P if personification, O
if onomatopoeia, A if alliteration,
I if it is irony, H if hyperbole.
____1. He is too brilliant that he
got the lowest score.
____2. I got so dirty that my pants
screamed "clean me"
 . My dad's beard was
_____3

itchy sandpaper.
____4. Emily swam like a
dolphin in the pool.
____5. The sneaker shoes
walked all the way to
Alaska.
 Agreement:
______1. The pirates were dirty

rats floating in the water.

_____2. My grandfather's
nose is so big, he could
smell flowers from miles
away.
______3. Siony is a
beautifulpearl.
_____4. My pencil was
as sharp as a razor,
slicing the paper with
every move.
 5. The flowers whisper as
_____

I pass by the trail.

_____6. My mom's perfume is
a sweet roses in bloom.
_____7. The popcorn jumped
in my mouth so fast that I
ate the whole bowl.
_____8. Meeeh - meeeh, the goat
cried.
_____9. My sister's feet were so
smelly, I thought garbage
trucks were in the house.
_____10. Mario is too tall that
he cannot reach the top of the
cabinet.