FIGURES

OF SPEECH
Definition of Figures of Speech
Types and Examples of Figures of Speech
FIGURES OF SPEECH

is a rhetorical device that achieves a

special effect by using words in
distinctive ways; it is a use of words that
diverges from its normal meaning, or a
phrase with a specialized meaning.
 1. SIMILE
 It makes a comparison, showing similarities between to
different things with the help of the words “like” and “as”.-
Elijah Marvin Guangco (slideshare)

“Your love is like a sun, that lights up my whole world”- Your

Love by Alamid
 2. METAPHOR
 It is a figure of speech which
makes and implicit, implied, or
hidden comparison between
unrelated things.
Your voice was the
soundtrack of my summer.
Do you know you’re
unlike any other? You’ll
always be my thunder, and
I said your eyes are the
brightest of all colors
---
Thunder by Boys Like Girls
 3. Personification

 Inanimate object or
abstraction is endowed Let the floods clap their hands;
Inanimate object or abstraction is
with human qualities or letendowed
the hills
withsing
humantogether for
qualities or
joy”- Psalmabilities
98:8
abilities
 4. METONYMY

Meaning Example Given

A figure of speech in
a) “pen is mightier than
which one word or
the sword”
phrase is substituted for
b) “let me give you a
another with which it is
hand”
closely associated
 5. Antithesis

Example
Meaning Given

An 1. “many are
opposition or called, but few
contrast of are chosen”.
ideas. 2. Speech is
silver, but
silence is gold
6. Oxymoron

-Placement of two “Tale as old as time. Tune

contradictory words as old as song. Bitter sweet
and strange. Finding you
can change. Learning you
were wrong”
---
Beauty and the Beast by
Ariana Grande and John
Legend
 7. Apostrophe

Meaning: Example Given:

-When you speak up -“Twinkle, twinkle,
into an object, an idea or little star, how I
someone who doesn’t wonder what you
exist as if it is a living are”
person
 8. Irony

The use of words to convey the opposite of their

literal meaning.

1.) a pilot with the fear of heights

2.) saying “oh great”after failing the exam”
 9. Hyperbole

 Exaggeration or overstatement of speech

“I’d catch the grenade for you. Throw my hand on the blade for you. I’d jump in front of the
train for you. You know I’d do anything for you”-Grenade by Bruno Mars
10. Synecdoche

 A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the

whole

Take thy face hence( face hence

means body) – William
Shakespeare, Macbeth