Learning Strand-1 Communication Skills

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Name: __________________________________ CLC: _______________ Date: _______________
Module: USING FIGURE OF SPEECH
Objectives:
 Recall figure of speech
 Analyze figure of speech (simile, metaphor, personification)
 Enrich vocabulary to improve communication skills

LET’S REVIEW
Identify whether the sentence uses a simile or metaphor. Write S for simile and M for metaphor.
1. ------------ Maria’s skin is as white as snow.
2. ------------ Greg’s arms are hard stonewalls.
3. ------------ Vincent’s voice is as cold as ice.
4. ------------ Problems are spices in person’s life.
5. ------------ Life is like a wheel.

LET’S STUDY
Figurative language is a way of expressing ideas by using symbolisms instead of ordinary language. It uses
words or expressions with meaning different from the literal interpretation. Figure of speech are language devices
intended to bring out the reader/listener fresh reactions or perceptions to a scene or an object. They make
comparison of familiar objects to bring out less familiar impressions.

Let us focus first on these two figure of speech: simile and metaphor writers make use of similes and metaphors to
make their writing more colorful and more vivid with the use of comparisons.

In a simile, the writer uses like or as…as to compare two things.

Examples:
 Today, Lita is as bright as a sunbeam.
 A diligent person is like an ant.

In a metaphor, the writer compares two thing directly using other things or names. The comparisons does
not use the expressions like or as…as.
Examples:
 Her hair is yellow corn.
 Greg’s arms are hard stonewalls.

In personification, the writers make animals, plants, and things act, talk, and think as if they were humans. He
does this to make the poem or story more interesting.
Examples:
 Spiders hung their lacy webs.
 The wind whispered secrets to my ears.

LET’S PRACTICE
Identify the following figure of speech. Write simile, metaphor, or personification on the space provided.

____________1. Ana’s heart is as hard as stone

____________2. A mother is queen of her home.
____________3. The handsome man is like a butterfly fleeting from flower to flower.
____________4. The sick person is as thin as a toothpick.
____________5. The teacher’s eyes are twinkling with joy.
____________6. Life is but a dream.
____________7. A helicopter hovered above like a giant humming bird.
____________8. The kettles sing a merry tune as they sit on the fire.
____________9. A rainbow is a bridge across the sky.
____________10. The wind whispered secrets to my ears.