Figurative Language

I. Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
a. Discuss the figurative language;
b. Differentiate figurative language according to its use;
c. Identify figurative language use in the sentence;
d. Compare “Rice Pounding Songs” and “Magbayo”;
e. Construct a poem using figurative language.
II. Subject Matter
Topic: Figurative Language
Reference/Author: Essential English 8/ E.E. De Vera, N.R. Francisco, C.T Gonzales
Materials: PPT presentation, colored paper, Book
Skills to Develop: Discern the usage of figurative language
III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

A. Preparatory Activities
Good morning Class! Good morning ma’am!

Pick up the pieces of anything under your chair

Who wants to lead the prayer?

Okay Jheza lead the prayer. (Jezha leads the prayer)

You may sit down

Let me check the attendance first, who’s absent No one is absent today ma’am
today?

So last time we discussed the literature of

Myanmar and its chosen literary piece “Rice
Pounding Songs”

B. Development of Lesson
1. Motivation

I have here a black and white bond paper

Which color do you prefer to represents as
yourself?
I prefer white as a representation of myself,
Yes jannah? because like a color white I have pure heart.
Very good!

Anyone?

2. Activity
Did you know that you use simile and metaphor in No ma’am
representing each color as yourself?

What do you think is our topic for today? It’s all about figurative language

Yes that’s right. Our topic for today is figurative

language. Simile and metaphor are also kinds of
figurative language. They are the most common
figurative language used in everyday life.

However, today we are going to learn more about

other figurative language such as;

1. Assonance
2. Alliteration
3. Consonance
4. Onomatopoeia
5. Cliché
6. Idiom
7. Euphemism

Did you understand the lesson? Yes ma’am

Good to hear!

Since you have understand the lesson, try to

answer this exercise1

 Identify the figurative language in the

sentence 1. Pull yourself together!/ calm down- idiom
1. Pull yourself together! 2. The owl hooted in the three/ to make a
2. The owl hooted in the three loud sound- onomatopoeia
3. Don’t judge the book by its cover 3. Don’t judge the book by its cover- cliche
4. At night, the wind was howling in the 4. At night, the wind was howling in the
darkness. darkness./ long, low sound made by strong
5. Don’t jump the gun. wind- onomatopoeia
6. He missed the boat 5. Don’t jump the gun./ don’t do something
7. Pregnancy termination before the allotted time.- idiom
8. The fair breeze blew 6. He missed the boat/ missed out an
9. The rain on Spain falls mainly on the plain oppurtunity-idiom
10. Peter piper picked a peck of pickled 7. Pregnancy termination/ abortion -
peppers. euphemism
8. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew-
consonance
 9. The rain on Spain falls mainly on the
plain.-assonance
10. Peter piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers. alliteration
Very good everyone’s participating.
3. Analysis

Who can enumerate the figurative language we

have discussed?
The figurative we’ve discussed today are
Okay von? alliteration, assonance, consonance,
onomatopoeia, cliché, idiom, euphemism
Yes that’s right the figurative language we’ve
discussed are alliteration, assonance, consonance,
onomatopoeia, cliché, idiom, euphemism

4. Analysis

Now get your book and turn on page 200 answer

the activity 2 letter B. Spot the similarities of
tagalog folksong “Magbayo” and “Rice Pounding
Song”of Burma. Then, answer the guide questions
on page 201. Group yourselves into four.

5. Application

Compose a song using figurative language in free

verse form.

6. Generalization

How do we lessen conflict by using figures of For example, is euphemism we use this kind of
speech? figurative language to make the word less
Yes leonisse? offensive. In order to do that we will choose an
appropriate word that is polite to hear.