21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

ACTIVITY SHEET

Name: ______________________________ Grade and Section: ________________

Competency:
1. analyze the figures of speech and other literary techniques and devices in the text
EN12Lit-Ie-27

Figures of Speech – is the use of more expressive language applying varieties of

words to provide creative and dramatic approach to the meaning being presented.

ACTIVITY 1. IDENTIFICATION
Identify the figure of speech used in the following poem excerpts. Write your answer on the
blank.
_______________ 1. “Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Hark! Now I hear them- Ding, dong, bell.”
- William Shakespeare
_______________ 2. “Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; ye really
pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if
not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.’’
- Mary Shelley
_______________ 3.” Life is a broken- winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.”
- Langston Hughes
______________ 4. “Parting is such sweet sour.
Working in a coal mine is living death.”
- William Shakespeare
______________ 5. “Then come, sweet death, and erid me of this grief.”
- Christopher Marlowe