1. AGRICULTURE HIGH SCHOOL
Agriculture, Midsayap, Cotabato
Name: __________________________________________ Date: ______________
Year and Section: _________________________________ Score: _____________
Subject: English 4
Activity No. 1-35
Activity Title: Figures of Speech
Objective: To familiarize the basic kinds of figure of speech.
Kinds of Figures of Speech
4. Hyperbole- is an exaggerated statement used to heighten effect.
Ex.) I will show you my love in a hundred and fifty ways.
5. Irony- is a statement showing the opposite of what is said.
Ex.) How good of you to insult me in front of them.
6. Alliteration- is the repetition of an initial letter sound.
Ex.) Fritzie fried five fat fish.
7. Metonymy- is the use of a word for another which strongly suggest its meaning because they are closely
related.
Ex.) He is an Ayala.
8. Apostrophe- is addressing one person who is absent as though he or she were present or addressing a thing
as though it is a person .
Ex.) Ninoy, you’re not alone.
9. Synecdoche-A figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the
specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it.The genus is
substituted for the species( ex., weapon for sword, creature for man, arms for rifles, vehicle for bicycle).
Ex.)Preach the gospel to every creature.
LET’S PRACTICE! Identify the figure of speech used in each sentence. Write your answer before each
sentence.
1. George ate so many doughnuts, we had to widen the front doorway and roll him through the door.
2. The sun sizzled the swimmers’ skin.
3. Angela Abigail Applewhite ate anchovies and artichokes.
4. I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
5. Oh, death, where is thy victory?
TASK1: Identify the figure of speech used in each sentence. Write your answer before each sentence.
1. You have a lot of work to do, so I'll lend you a hand.
2. O Western wind, when wilt thou blow
That the small rain down can rain?
Christ, that my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again!
(Anonymous, "O Western Wind")
3. And he was rich, yes, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine--we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked and waited for the light,
And went without the meat and cursed the bread,
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet in his head.
(E. A. Robinson, "Richard Cory")
4. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
5. I could sleep for a year.
6.This box weighs a ton.
7. Little leaping lizards lay lazily on a log.
8. Handsome Harry hired hundreds of hippos for Hanukkah.
9. Your mother is so small she does chin-ups on the curb.
10. The oven was so hot, the cookies had a nuclear reaction, and consequently exploded.