This document provides an overview of different figures of speech including simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia. It defines each technique and provides examples. The session agenda indicates it will introduce and explain these six figures of speech.

3. Session Agenda
Introduction
Figures of Speech
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia

4. Introduction
It is a word or phrase used in a
non-literal sense for a vivid effect.
It makes your story more
engrossing or interesting.
It displays comparisons or your
knowledge.

5. Figures of
Speech
Simile Metaphor Alliteration Personification Hyperbole Onomatopoeia

6. 1. Simile
• A simile is a figure of speech that uses
comparison.
• The use of ‘like’ and ‘as’ to show two things
identical, that actually have nothing in common.
For example:
a. That man is tall as a mountain!
b. His daughter is precious like an angel to him.

7. • A metaphor also uses compares to things that are in no way similar.
• A metaphor is a word or phrase used to show its similarity to another thing.
• The words ‘like’ and ‘as’ are not used.
For example:
a. He is a talking dictionary.
b. The sun was a gleaming pearl.

8. What is being compared
to what?
1. Franklin has a heart of gold!
Franklin’s heart Gold
2. The car seat is a fluffy cloud.
Car Seat Fluffy Cloud
3. Gajar ka halwa is happiness in a
bowl.
Gajar ka Halwa Happiness

9. Alliteration
• Alliteration is the repetition of identical
initial consonant sounds or syllables within a
group of words, even those spelled
differently.
For Example:
a. That green grasshopper is a wild kind.
b. My friend, gorgeous Gurbani loves to do
Maths!
c. The best work here is by Amazing
Abhaylaksh.

10. Personification
• We personify or represent a non-human
entity as human.
• Or, giving an object living identities!
For example:
a. Lightning danced across the sky.
b. My alarm clock yells at me every morning.
c. Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her
name.

11. Hyperbole
• Hyperbole in the Greek language translates to
‘excess’.
• That is what it does, it exaggerates.
• We use hyperboles to emphasize the importance or
overstate something.
For example:
a. The boy runs faster than a horse!
b. I am so hungry, I could eat up an elephant!
c. You have a million toys at home!

12. Onomatopoeia
• This is a figure of speech where words or phrases indicate sounds.
• Often to bring about more imagery and better describe a setting,
authors use words to involve all five of our senses.
• Onomatopoeia refers to those words that imitate the sounds of an
object or person.
For example:
a. The bees buzzed around in the garden.
b. The door was squeaking again.

13. Determine which Figure of speech is being
used.
1. The cat ran away like the wind.
Simile
2. Suddenly in the middle of the night, the dog started barking.
Onomatopoeia
3. Variety is the spice of life.
Metaphor

14. Activity
Describe your fear using
figures of speech!
Time: 10 mins
Word limit: 75 words
Minimum 10 figures of
speech.