Professional Documents
Culture Documents
AND
HYPERBOLE
(FIGURES OF SPEECH USED
IN POEMS)
_________________ – an imaginary
person that represents a thing or
idea.
Example:
____________________ - language that
describes something as better or worse
than it really is.
Example:
THE SEA
-NATIVIDAD MARQUEZ
Why does the sea laugh, Mother?
As it glints beneath the sun?
It is thinking of the joys, my child,
That it wishes everyone.
•What is Personification?
•What is Hyperbole?
What is Personification?
What is Hyperbole?
Waves –
Stomach –
Moon –
The chair –
Computer –
The poem Kitchen Scandal uses personification and
hyperbole.