Submitted by: Cyr Allen Madayag Submitted to: Mrs.

Remedios Panganiban
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FIGURES OF SPEECH

1. SIMILE - comparison of unlike objects using the words “as” or

“like”
examples:
a. She is as beautiful as a flower.
b. Her hair is as black as the night.
c. The cotton candy that he bought is like cumulus clouds in
the sky.
d. The little boy runs as fast as the wind.
e. Marie eats like a pig.

2. METAPHOR – comparison of unlike objects without the use of

“as” and “like”
examples:
a. Alex is a real couch potato!
b. Jesus is the lamp upon our feet.
c. Father is a lion when he’s angry.
d. I am a bookworm.
e. You are a hog. You ate all the pizza!

3. PERSONIFICATION – giving human attributes to objects and

animals
examples:
a. The printer spat out the copies.
b. The trees waved at me.
c. The door groaned when I opened it.
d. The rain tickled my cheeks as it fell from the sky.
e. The bottle yelled at me to stop strangling it.

4. HYPERBOLE – exaggeration
examples:
a. I told you a million times already to clean your room.
b. I almost died laughing.
c. Mother has a mountain of laundry.
d. You snore louder than a freight train.
e. When she opened her birthday gift, her smile reached her
ears.
Submitted by: Cyr Allen Madayag Submitted to: Mrs. Remedios Panganiban
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SOUND DEVICES

1. ONOMATOPOEIA - refers to words whose

pronunciations imitate the actual sound that is being
described.

examples:
a. It is normal for a dog to bark when visitors arrive.
b. My brother released a belch from the pit of his stomach.
c. The bridge collapsed creating a tremendous boom!
d. The spoons and forks fell to the floor with a clatter.
e. My three-year old niece crashed into the cabinet.

2. ASSONANCE – uses sound to create rhythm and mood

examples:
a. “Hear the mellow wedding bells.” – Edgar Allan Poe
b. “The crumbling thunder of seas” – Robert Louis Stevenson
c. "I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and
restless." - "With Love" Thin Lizzy
d. "In the over-mastering loneliness of that moment, his whole
life seemed to him nothing but vanity."
– Robert Penn Warren
e. "Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished
in low circles round and round the field, winding hither and
thither through the weeds" – James Joyce

3. ALLITERATION - is a term to describe a literary device

in which a series of words begin with the
same consonant sound

examples:
a. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
b. She sells seashells by the seashore.
c. Mike made mellow music with his new microphone.
d. Jackrabbits jump and jiggle jauntily.
e. Seven sisters slept soundly on the sand.
Submitted by: Cyr Allen Madayag Submitted to: Mrs. Remedios Panganiban
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