Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, and Hyperbole

1. • Figures of speech are rhetorical devices that
make use of words in a different way to
achieve a specific effect.
• A group of words written creatively to
transcend from its literal interpretation.
Figures of speech can't only
be seen in poems.
They are also used in
everyday language!

2. • Simile – This is the comparison of two unlike
entities but with similar qualities through the
use of the words "like" or "as".
• Katrina is as white as snow.
• Ralph is tall like a giraffe.
Your teeth are like stars;
They come out at night.
They come back at dawn
When they’re ready to bite.
-Denise Rogers

3. • Metaphor – This is also like simile. The only
difference is that metaphors don’t use “like”
and “as”.
• Life is a rosary that’s full of mysteries.
I am one of many
Small branches of a broken tree
Always looking to the ones above
For guidance...
-A Broken Family Tree by Lori
Mcbride

4. • Hyperbole – You use this to make an
extravagant statement or exaggeration.
• If I don’t get a perfect score on my English
Assessment next Friday, I will die!
I'd catch a grenade for you.
Throw my hand on a blade for
you.
I'd jump in front of a train for
you.
-Bruno Mars

5. • Personification – You give human attributes to
inanimate objects and abstract ideas.
• The wind is calling me.
• The trees are dancing with joy.

6. • Apostrophe – A figure of speech which addresses
an idea, object, or imaginary entity that is absent.
• “Oh Weekends! Where art thou?”
• Dearest Moon, please shine as bright as her smile
tonight so when I look at you, I’ll feel inspired.
Blue moon, you saw me
standing alone…
- Lorenz Hart

7. SIMILE METAPHOR HYPERBOLE
PERSONIFICATION APOSTROPHE
You are as
bright as
the sun.
You are the
sun that
brightens up
my day.
The sun is so
hot I could
just melt right
now.
The sun is
killing me.
Oh Golden
Sun! Bless me
with your
glaze.

8. DEFINE THE GIVEN
FIGURE OF SPEECH
AND GIVE AN
EXAMPLE:
1) Simile
2) Metaphor
3) Hyperbole
4) Personification
5) Apostrophe