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Name: Mariefe C. Relano

Course & Year: BSED 4 Filipino
Subject: Literature 2 (World Literature) Module 4
Instructor: Miriam S. Addun

I. LEARNING EXPERIENCES

A. Identify the figure of speech used in the following lines.

1. He is not a bad sort.(litotes, oxymoron, simile)

2. Who is here so vile that will not love his country?(exclamation, interrogation,
climax)
3. Make haste slowly.(antithesis, litotes, oxymoron)
4. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.(antithesis, oxymoron, litotes)
5. Silence is sometimes more eloquent than words.(oxymoron, climax, epigram)
6. Obviously, the constitution is against prostitution and congress is against
progress.
(pun, antithesis, irony)
7. Sunburn mirth(epithet, euphemism, irony)
8. I have the Viceroy, love the man.(synecdoche, hyperbole, alliteration)
9. I have never read Milton.(apostrophe, metonymy, synecdoche)
10. Little sorrow’s sit and weep.(personification, metonymy, apostrophe)
11. She is now in the sunset of her days. (simile, metaphor, personification)
12. She is like a fairy.(simile, metaphor, hyperbole)
13. Thirsty ground(personification, metaphor, hyperbole)
14. Virtues are the sands of the shore.(hyperbole, apostrophe, metonymy)
15. The moan of doves(personification, apostrophe, metaphor)

B. Be able to explain in your own words the meanings of the figurative

languages in Exercise A.

1. Oxymoron- Combines two seemingly contradictory words for sharp emphasis or

effect.
2. Interrogation- Denying something more strongly than could be done in ordinary
language.
3. Oxymoron- Combines two seemingly contradictory words for sharp emphasis or
effect.
4. Antithesis- A striking opposition or contrast of words is made in the same
sentencein order to secure emphasis.
5. Epigram- Often ingenious or witty statements, it is a brief pointed saying.
6. Pun- A play on the various meanings of a word.
7. Epithet- the qualifying objective is transferred from a person to a thing as in
phrases.
8. Synecdoche- Understanding of one thing by means of another.
9. Metonymy- A change of name, a substitute for the thing names for the thing
meant.
10. Personification- An attribution of personal nature, intelligence or character to
inanimate objects.
11. Metaphor- An informal or implied simile in which words like, as, so are omitted.

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12. Simile- Two unlike things is explicitly compared with the use of the word like or
as.
13. Personification- An attribution of personal nature, intelligence or character to
inanimate objects.
14. Hyperbole- Exaggeration or over-statement.
15. Personification- An attribution of personal nature, intelligence or character to
inanimate objects.

II. ASSESSMENT

Look for other examples for each of the abovementioned figurative

languages.

 Simile
1. The desert traveler’s hope were dashed, as when at last he reached a well, it
was as dry as a bone.
2. When the teacher entered the class, the 6 th grade students were fighting lke
cat and dogs.
3. When the examination finished, the candidate felt as light as a feather.
4. The beggar on the road looked as a bat.
5. During the examination, the high school students were as busy as a bee.
6. Our soldiers are as brave as lions.
7. Her face are red like a rose.
8. He is as funny as a monkey.
9. The water well was as dry as a bone.
10. She is as cunning as a fox.
 Metaphor
1. Last night I slept the sleep of the dead.
2. Age is a state of mind.
3. That actor is a tall drink of water.
4. No man is an island.
5. Time is gold.
6. There is a weight on my shoulder.
7. She’s buried in a mountain of paperwork.
8. I smell success in you.
9. His heart of stone surprise me
10. Is there a black sheep in your family?
 Personification
1. The cactus saluted those who drove fast.
2. The thunder was grumbling in the distance.
3. The ivy wove its fingers around the fence.
4. My plants were begging for water.
5. Our vacuum hums a happy tune while it cleans.
6. The stairs groaned as we walked on them.
7. The camera loves her since she is so pretty.
8. The approaching cars headlight winked at us.
9. The moon played hide and seek with the clouds.
10. Our house is a friend who protects us.
 Metonymy
1. Today at lunch, I sat with the jocks.
2. Next week my boyfriend and I are headed to the altar.

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3. Detroit is still hard for work on an SUV that runs on rain forest and panda
blood.
4. The working man follows the life of the crown in envy and awe.
5. The white house made the statement of Osama’s death late at night.
6. The ham and sandwich is waiting for his check.
7. You’ll find better ideas than that on the libray.
8. The Boston office called.
9. Jan began a novel.
10. Denis drank the bottle.
 Hyperbole
1. He was in such a hurry that he drove his car at bazillion miles per hour.
2. The boy was dying to get a new school bag.
3. The teacher told the student not to repeat that mistake for the umpteenth
time, but to no avail,
4. John was called the elephant of the class for his clumsiness.
5. The mule is able to lift tons of weight uphill.
6. The old man was older than the Himalayas.
7. His classmate laughed at him, saying he has a pea-sized brain.
8. The businessman was so busy that he was attending to a million calls
simultaneously
9. I’ve told you to clean your room a million times!
10. Your suitcase weighs a ton.
 Rhetorical questions and interrogation.
1. Do dogs bark?
2. Do cats meow?
3. Do pigs fly?
4. Is hell hot?
5. There’s no point, is there?
6. What is the meaning of life?
7. Why do we go on?
8. What’s the matter with kids today?
9. How much longer will this injustice continue?
10. Could I possibly love you more?
 Apostrophe
1. Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief. (Queen Isabel in Edward II
by Christopher Marlowe)
2. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth. (Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I)
3. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll! (The Ocean by Lord Byron)
4. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of
experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of
my race. (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce)
5. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent
to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen
gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! (The Holy
Bible, Luke 13:34)
6. “Ugh, cell phone, why won’t you load my messages?”
7. While speaking on the phone with someone) “Hold, on, my kid’s going crazy
—Jim, come back here, stop running with scissors.”
8. Oh, Starbucks, how I love you! Your medium dark roast allowed me to
survive that meeting!”
9. Oh what a world it seems we live in.” –Rufus Wainwright (song)
10. holy night! The stars are brightly shining!” (Christmas carol)
 Synecdoche
1. The word "glasses" refer to eyewear.

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2. Everyday cutlery may be referred to as "silverware," even though
they're not actually made of silver.
3. The word "plastic" is commonly used to refer to credit cards.
4. The word "ivories" is often used to denote piano keys, even though the
keys are no longer made of ivory.
5. When a golfer plays with their "woods" they are referring to their
longest golf clubs.
6. Bullets are sometimes referred to as "lead".
7. To go for a walk in the "woods" means to go for a walk in a forest-like
setting.
8. Good ol' fashioned newspapers are referred to as "papers."
9. "Hurry up, gray beard!" 
10. "What's the head count?" 
 Epithet
1. Unn the Deep-minded
2. Gest the Wise
3. Bjorn the EasternerBrienne the Beauty (a mocking epithet, as Brienne is
famous for her physical unattractiveness)
4. The Sand Snakes
5. Robert Baratheon, the Usurper
6. Ramsay Snow, the Bastard of Bolton
7. Tyrion Lannister, the Imp
8. Lady Olenna Tyrell, the Queen of Thorns
9. Loras Tyrell, the Knight of Flowers
10. Davos Seaworth, the Onion Knight
 Euphemism
1. Kick the bucket instead of die
2. Whacked instead of killed
3. Letting someone go instead of firing someone
4. On the streets instead of homeless
5. Correctional facility instead of jail
6. Between jobs instead of unemployed
7. Relocation center instead of prison camp
8. Economical instead of cheap
9. Negative cash flow instead of broke
10. Taking an early retirement instead of got fired
11. Urban outdoorsman instead of homeless
12. Embarking on a journey of self-discovery instead of jobless
 Irony or Sarcasm
1. A pilot has a fear of heights.
This situation is ironic because airplane pilots spend most of their time at
work high in the air.
2. A member of PETA wears leather shoes.
Because PETA members work to protect animal rights, one would assume
they would avoid products made from animal skins.
3. The teacher fails the test.
Teachers are usually the ones giving tests rather than taking them, so most
people assume they would be expert at passing tests.
4. A man who needs medical assistance is run over by the ambulance.
In this case, the man got the exact opposite of what he needed from the
medical help on the scene.
5. An anti-technology group sets up a website to recruit new club members.
People who dislike technology aren't likely to be looking for clubs on the
internet, so using technology to recruit is unexpected.
6. Two people want a divorce, but during the proceedings they discover they
still love each other and get back together.

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This is the opposite outcome of what happens in a typical divorce, which
makes the situation ironic.
7. A child runs away from someone throwing a water balloon at him and falls
into the pool.
This is ironic because the child ends up wetter than he would have been,
thwarting his expectations of what would happen when he ran away from the
water balloon.
8. The cobbler's children have no shoes.
A cobbler is a professional shoemaker, so the expectation is that her own
children would have many shoes, not zero.
9. The President is wounded when a bullet ricochets off his bulletproof car
and into his arm.
This outcome was definitely not what the Secret Service had in mind when
they ordered a secure vehicle.
10. A man leaps out of the road to avoid being hit by a car, only to have a
tree branch fall on his head.
This is not the outcome the man expected because he thought he would
escape being hurt.
 Pun
1. After hours of waiting for the bowling alley to open, we finally got the ball rolling.
2. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn't
much, but the reception was brilliant!
3. Always trust a glue salesman. They tend to stick to their word.
4. Guerrilla warfare is more than just throwing a banana.
5. The cartoon animator felt imprisoned by his job. He could not free himself from
his cel.
6. I thought Santa was going to be late, but he arrived in the Nick of time.
7. Every calendar's days are numbered.
8. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
9. No matter how much you push the envelope, it will still be stationery.
10. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
11. If you don't pay your exorcist, you will get repossessed.
12. A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.
13. I went to a seafood disco last week... and pulled a mussel.
14. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a-salted.
15. Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.
16. "You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless, of course, you play bass."
- Douglas Adams
17. "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." - Groucho Marx
18. "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and
quoted." - Fred Allen
19. "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain
20. "Atheism is a non-prophet institution" - George Carlin
 Epigram
1. "To be safe on the Fourth/Don't buy a fifth on the third." - James H. Muehlbauer
2. "It comes once a year/But it fades with fear."- Harry Potter
3. "I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde
4. "No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend." - Groucho Marx
5. "If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -
Catherine the Great
6. "It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt
7. "The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism." - Dorothy Parker
8. "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put and end to mankind." - John F.
Kennedy
9. "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small
people talk about wine." - Fran Lebowitz
10. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not
being talked about.
11. "Little strokes/Fell great oaks." - Benjamin Franklin
12. "Here's my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest-and so am I." - John Dryden

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13. "Candy/Is dandy,/But liquor/Is quicker." - Ogden Nash
14. "I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way." -
Bruce Bennett, "Ironist"
15. "To be safe on the Fourth/Don't buy a fifth on the third." - James H. Muehlbauer
 Antithesis
1. "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here." - Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
2. "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out
in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb
meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent
planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my
days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London
3. "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe
4. "Money is the root of all evil: poverty is the fruit of all goodness." - Source
unknown
5. "Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit." - Aristotle
6. "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful." - Samuel Johnson
7. "Folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
8. "All the joy the world contains / Has come through wishing happiness for others. /
All the misery the world contains / Has come through wanting pleasure for
oneself." - Shantideva
9. And even though the sun is shining
Well, I feel the rain.
- Even in the Quietest Moments by Roger Hodgson
10. It's never too soon.
It's never too late.
- Quicksand by Bethany Joy Lenz
 Oxymoron
1. "I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible." - Oscar Wilde
2. "And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." - Alfred Tennyson
3. "Modern dancing is so old fashioned." - Samuel Goldwyn
4. "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford
5. "I am a deeply superficial person." - Andy Warhol
6. "We're busy doing nothing." - Bing Crosby
7. "No one goes to that restaurant anymore. It's always too crowded." - Yogi Berra
8. "A joke is an extremely serious issue." - Winston Churchill
9. "I like humanity, but I loathe persons." - Edna St. Vincent Millay
10. "I generally advise persons never ever to present assistance." - P.G. Wodehouse
 Litotes
1. All in all, she wasn't a bad dancer.(i.e., She was a good dancer.)
2. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.(i.e., It's similar.)
3. He's not unlike his older brother.(i.e., He's similar.)
4. They spent seven months apart; that's no small amount of time.(i.e., That's a
long time.)
5. They don't exactly have an ordinary relationship.(i.e., Their relationship is
different.)
6. She's not the sharpest knife in the box.(i.e., She's unintelligent.)
7. Your kitchen isn't disorderly, per se.(i.e., It's orderly and organized.)
8. You won't be sorry you bought a kitchen organizer.(i.e., You'll be glad.)
9. His statements are not without truth.(i.e., They are at least partly true.)
10. Large crowds of people are not my cup of tea.(i.e., I dislike them.)

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