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Fi g ur Different types  Examples
 Activity
 Meaning

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WHAT IS FIGURES OF SPEECH?
-It is one of the type of language 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.
 Alliteration Anaphora
This is the repetition of It is a repetition of a word or
CONSONANT SOUNDS at the phrase at the beginning of a
beginning of neighboring words successive clauses to achieve an
and/or phrases. effect
Example : Example :
“We shall go on the end, we
“You clinking, “You billowing
shall fight in France, we shall
clanking
bale of bovine fight on the seas and the
clattering
fodder!...” oceans, we shall fight for our
collection of
caliginous - from the Wizard of Ox Island”.
junk…”
 Antithesis Apostrophe

An opposition or contrast of When you speak up into an

ideas that are put together in object, an idea or someone who
balance phrases to achieve a doesn’t exist as if it is a living
contrasting effect. person
Example: Example:

Many are called but few are

“Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how
I wonder what you are”
chosen
-Nursery Rhyme
 Assonance Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the
Similarities in sound second half of an expression is
between internal vowels balanced against the first but
and neighboring words. with the parts reversed.
Examples:
Example: a.)“Never let a fool kiss you
“It beats as it sweeps as it or a kiss fool you”
cleans” b.) “If you fail to plan,
then you are plan to fail ”
Euphemism

An indirect word or expression substituted for one

considered to be too harsh or unpleasant.
Examples:

a. “Pre-loved”- for second hand

b. “Passed away”- instead of died
c. “Healthy”- instead of Jezrha/fat
 Eponym
Using the name of a person or deity that is commonly
associated with some organized traits or characteristics that
the name itself becomes the substitute for a trait or
characteristic.
Example:
“Make me your Aphrodite. Make me your one
and only”
-Dark Horse by Katy Perry
 Epithet

A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title

of a person.
Examples:
King of Pop --- Michael Jackson
Black Mamba --- Kobe Bryant
Regine Velasquez
Asia’s Song Bird ---
Hyperbole
Exaggeration or overstatement of speech; the use of
exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or
heightened effect.
Example:
“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
 Irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
1. Situational - Where actions or events have opposite result from what
is expected. Example:
A pilot with a fear of heights
2. Verbal - Someone says the opposite of what they really mean
Example:
Saying “oh great” after failing the exam
3. Dramatic - Occurs when the audience or reader knows something that
the characters do not.
Example:
In horror movies, the audience are aware that there is a killer in the house, but the character
does not.
 Litotes
Consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative
is express by negating its opposite
Examples:
After someone hires you, you might
say,
“Thank you ma’am, you won’t
regret it”
 Metonymy

A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is

substituted for another with which it is closely associated
Examples:
a) “Pen is mightier than the sword”
b) “Let me give you a hand”
c) “Friends, Romans. Countrymen, lend me your
ears”.
-Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act 1
Onomatopoeia

-Is the term for a word that sounds like what is

describing.
Examples are:
#Whoosh #Splash #Click #Oink
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which two contradictory or
opposing ideas appear in the same phrase.
Example:
“Tale as old as time. Tune 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
 Paradox
Contrary to expectations, existing beliefs, or perceived
opinion. It is a statement that appears to be self-
contradictory.
Example:
a) War is Peace
b) Freedom is Slavery
c) Ignorance is Strength
Personification
A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or
abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
Example:

“Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing
together for joy”
- Psalm 98:8
 Pun
A play on words sometimes on different senses of the
same word or sometimes on the similar sense or sounds of
different words.
Example:
a) When it rains, it pours
b) The two pianists have a good marriage. They are
always
in chord
 Simile

It makes a comparison, showing similarities between to

different things with the help of the words “like” and
“as”.-Elijah Marvin Guangco (slideshare)
Example:
“Your love is like a sun, that lights up my whole
world”
- Your Love by Alamid
 Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a part is used to

represent the whole
Example:

Take thy face hence( face hence means

body)
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Understatement

A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker

deliberately makes a situation seem less important or
serious than it is.
Example:

“ I have to have this operation…It isn’t very

serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the
brain.”
ITS PLAY TIME !!!
Let your TONGUE TWIST
like a WIGGLE-WIGGLE

Betty Botter bought some butter but, she said, the

butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my
batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my
bitter batter better. So she bought some better butter,
better than the bitter butter, put it in her bitter batter,
made her bitter batter better. So it was better for Betty
Botter bought some better butter
OINK…. OINK…. OINK…
Sing me with this
Sound
 Find me with this Song
Identify the figures of speech used in
the song
I Can Almost See It
That Dream I’m Dreamin’
But There’s A Voice Inside My Headset
Saying You’ll Never Reach It
Every Step I’m Taking
Every Move I Make Feels
Lost With No Direction
My Faith Is Shakin’
But I Gotta Keep Tryin’
Gotta Keep My Head Held High

There’s Always Gonna Be Another Mountain

I’m Always Gonna Wanna Make It Move
Always Gonna Be An Uphill Battle
Sometimes I’m Gonna Have To Lose
Ain’t About How Fast I Get There
Ain’t About What’s Waitin’ On The Other Side
It’s A Climb
Act me like
Crazy
 Fliptop Battle
Simile, Metaphor, Personification,
Hyperbole

vs.

Group: Group:
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