Creative Writing

Review:
What is imagery?
What are the different types
of imagery?
 GUIFSER FO
FIGURES OF SPEECH
EHCESP
How can you add color and
life to your output specially in
writing a fiction?
Objective: At the end of the session,
you will be able to:
Identify the figure of speech
used in a statement
 FIGURES OF SPEECH
 It is also known as figurative language because it
creates figures or pictures in the mind of the
readers. It means something different from what is
usual.
 there are plenteous kinds of figures of speech
such as metaphor, personification, synecdoche,
oxymoron, litotes, irony, hyperbole, alliteration,
assonance, onomatopoeia and a lot more .
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1. HYPERBOLE
Ideasare expressed in an
exaggerated manner.
Examples:
1. I almost turned crazy of
thinking about you.
2. I cried a river of tears
when we broke up.

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2. ONOMATOPOEIA

 Itis using words that imitate the

natural sounds of things or animals.
1. I miss the splashing of
the waters during summer
time.
2. The clanging of the pots
and pans awoke the baby.
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 3. PERSONIFICATION

It is giving human qualities to

inanimate objects.

1. The sea is so angry over the streak of garbage at the

bay.
2. The sign on the door insulted my intelligence.
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 4. RHETORICAL QUESTION
Itis a question that does not need
answer but for emphasis.
1. Who does not want to be free?

2. “If you prick us, do we not bleed?

If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, do we not revenge?”
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
3. What’s the use of asking her?
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5. OXYMORON
 Itis a phrase where two opposite ideas
are joined together.

1. The loud silence of the streets can be heard

here during the lockdown.
2. I distinctly remember forgetting that.
3. Parting is such a sweet sorrow.
What is Figures of Speech?
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 Give examples of:

Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Rhetorical Question
Oxymoron
Why is it necessary for us to understand
the different figures of speech?
Let’s Practice!
Identify the Figure of Speech used in each
statement.
The deafening silence added to her anxiety.
The baby cried as she heard the bang bang of guns
from a distance.
My phone is not cooperating with me today.
I walked a million miles to get here!
The documentary went on forever.
QUIZ 1/4th sheet
Identify the Figure of Speech used in each
statement.
1) If practice makes perfect but no one is perfect, then why practice?
2) Can’t you see, the star is winking at you?
3) Nothing annoys me more than rapidly clicking your pen.
4) The cash register popped open with a heart warming ca-ching.
5) The dog he was raising was found missing yesterday.
6) Falling in love is a painfully beautiful feeling.
7) The candle flame danced in the dark.
8) This city never sleeps.
9) I’m so hungry that I could eat an elephant.
10) It’s so hot you could fry an egg on the side walk.