Chapter 3: Creative Writing: Language

Lesson 2. Figures of Speech

Rona Mae L. Magno
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Comparison and
Contrast
1. Simile
-comparing two unlike things
using “like” or “as”
-one common characteristic

ex. Life is like a box of

chocolates.
2. Metaphor
-comparing two unlike
things without using
“like” or “as”
-one common
characteristic

ex. My heart is a
lonely hunter that
3. Oxymoron
- places two opposing words side by side

ex.
working vacation, silent yell, civil war
4. Paradox
- two opposing ideas that
forms one structure
(phrase/clause)

ex.
She is a mother and murderer.
Sometime, the strongest
presence is absence.
5. Antithesis
-two opposing ideas are
place in separate
Order
Sound
Repetition
Inversion
Conjunctions
Others