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This document provides a lesson on identifying and understanding different types of figurative language. It begins with defining common figures of speech like simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and oxymoron. Examples of each are given. There are then exercises for students to identify figures of speech in sentences and underline examples. The document concludes with an evaluation to test understanding of the concepts. The overall purpose is to teach students about figurative language devices.

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Inervention Materials in Figurative Language

This document provides a lesson on identifying and understanding different types of figurative language. It begins with defining common figures of speech like simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and oxymoron. Examples of each are given. There are then exercises for students to identify figures of speech in sentences and underline examples. The document concludes with an evaluation to test understanding of the concepts. The overall purpose is to teach students about figurative language devices.

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Department of Education

Region IV-A CALABARZON


DIVISION of Batangas
BUKAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Padre Garcia, Batangas

INTERVENTION IN ENGLISH
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Objective:
Identify the figure of speech.

Explanation
Simile
A simile uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another to
suggest they are alike.
Example: busy as a bee

Metaphor
The metaphor states a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison. A
simile would say you are like something; a metaphor is more positive - it says you are
something. 
Example: You are what you eat.

Personification  
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object. 
Example: My teddy bear gave me a hug.

Alliteration
The repetition of the same initial letter,
sound, or group of sounds in a series of words. Alliteration includes tongue twisters. 
Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.

Onomatopoeia
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an
object or an action. 
Example: snap crackle pop 

Hyperbole
An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is true.
Tall tales are hyperboles.
Example: He was so hungry, he ate that whole cornfield for lunch, stalks and all.
Oxymoron
The figure of speech Oxymoron refers to a phrase which appears to be contradictory
in nature.

Examples: bitter sweet, ostentatious simplicity, cruel kindness


Apostrophe
is a form of personification. In an apostrophe, the writer addresses some inanimate
thing or an absent person as if it were present.
Examples:
‘O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy victory?’

EXERCISE 1
Identify the figure of speech. Write S for simile, M for Metaphor, A for Apostrophe, P for
Personification.

1. Time is the thief of the youth.

2. Life is like a string of multi-colored beads.

3. Hope has a grown gray hairs.

4. My soul is an enchanted boat.

5. Come, winter, with your might!

6. The leaves of memory made a mournful rustling.

7. I wandered lonely as a cloud.

8. Flow gently, sweet Alfon (river)

9. She walks in beauty like the night

10. A host of flowers fluttered and dance.

Exercise 2
Underline the figures of speech label them as: simile, metaphor, oxymoron, onomatopoeia and
alliteration

He started out as a paid volunteer for the Cocamamy Crudgeon Company and
worked

himself into a temporary full-time position. The building he worked in was a huge,
monolithic structure that seemed to spring up from the cement like a huge pointing

finger. In the listless lilting liposuction of life this was a job of Lilliputian proportions.

At first, he liked the position, but lately his boss seemed politely insulting towards

Him, which caused him to respond in a passive aggressive manner. The relative truth of
the matter was that he needed this job to pay for his mortgage and feed his burgeoning

small crowd of a family. He let out a singular silent scream of painful remorse when his

inconsiderate, insidious, incoherent, idiot of a boss asked him to work overtime for the

ten-thousandth time for very little overtime pay or gratitude from the firm.

Enrichment
Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentences.

1. The camel is the ship of the desert.


a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Oxymoron
d) Personification
2. Death lays its icy hands on Kings.
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Oxymoron
d) Personification
3. O death! Where is thy sting? O grave! Where is thy victory?
a) Oxymoron
b) Hyperbole
c) Metaphor
d) Apostrophe
4. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Hyperbole
d) Apostrophe
5. Variety is the spice of life.
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Hyperbole
d) Antithesis
6. Pride goeth forth on horseback, grand and gay
a) Personification
b) Hyperbole
c) Apostrophe
d) Metaphor
7. O Solitude! Where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face?
a) Personification
b) Apostrophe
c) Hyperbole
d) Oxymoron
8. Here is the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
a) Hyperbole
b)Apostrophe
c) Personification
d) Metaphor

9. He was brave as a lion.

a. Apostrophe
b. Metaphor
c. Personification
d. Simile
10. She is jewel of a daughter
a) Hyperbole
b)Apostrophe
c) Personification
d) Metaphor

Evaluation
Read the statement carefully then give the appropriate answer for each item.
________1. An example of this figure of speech is, “Her lips are red as strawberry.”
________2. Personification is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are
given to an animal or an object. Underline the human characteristics in this line.
Primroses smile and daisies cannot frown.
______3.” He is an oak covered with snowflakes.” The line is a metaphor what are
being compared?
______ 4.Which of the following line is alliteration
a. Peter piper picked a pecked of pickled pepper
b. The grasses dance gracefully
c. Along the window sill, the lipstick stabs.
_______5.The hissing of the snake made me shoo it away. This line is an______.
Answer:
Exercise 1
1.M
2.S
3.P
4.M
5.A
6.P
7.S
8.A
9.S
10. P
Exercise 2
Cocamamy Crudgeon Company –alliteration
temporary full-time - oxymoron
cement like a huge pointing finger -simile
listless lilting liposuction of life -alliteration
politely insulting - oxymoron
passive aggressive - oxymoron
burgeoning small crowd -oxymoron
singular silent scream - alliteration
ten-thousandth time for very little overtime pay or gratitude from the firm- hyperbole
Enrichment
1. Metaphor
2. Personification
3. Apostrophe
4. Apostrophe
5. Simile
6. Metaphor
7. Personification
8. Hyperbole
9.simile
10. metaphor

Evaluation
1. Simile
2. smile/frown
3. he/oak
4. a
5. Onomatopoeia

Source:
www.google.com
Moving Ahead in English
Communications for Progress I

Prepared by:
Judit G. Tolentino

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