Figures of Speech, Creative Writing Lesson

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare
What does this poem imply?
What symbolisms does this poem entail?Presented by: Ehlie Rose G. Baguinaon

Literary Devices
Figure of
Speech
Presented by: Ehlie Rose G. Baguinaon

It gives extra dimension
to language by
stimulating the
imagination and evoking
visual, sensual imagery;
such language paints a
mental picture in words.
It expresses an idea,
thought, or image
with words which
carry meanings
beyond their literal
ones.
Figure of
Speech

Metaph
or compares two unlike things or ideas without using as or
like
 all figures of speech are metaphors
God is transparent blue – the color
Which makes our souls visible.
Is it the Kingfisher?, Marjorie Evasco
The World is an Apple
AlbertoS.Florentino
Alec Stafford has a heart of stone – so cold.
Lady Althea Morecombe is a night owl. She knows everything of that night!
She is an ogre when angry.

Simil
e comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or
"as”
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth
I never saw his as dark as night!
My grandmother is as wise as an owl.
Dudley eats like a pig.

Personificat
ion
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on low fence-wire;
There Will Come Soft Rains, Sara Teasdale
 giving human qualities to non-living things or ideas
Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold:
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, Sir Walter Raleigh
The wind howled.
Snowflakes danced.
The flowers nodded at me.

Hyperb
ole
Of Humber would complain, I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow:
To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell
 uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
And I will make thee bed of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flower, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle:
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Christopher Marlowe
I have told you a hundred times.
It costs a billion dollars.
Everyone knows that.
She is older than a dirt.

Irony It is visible when there is a contrast between
what is said and what is meant, or between
appearance and reality
Verba
l
Situation
al
Dramati
c
“How nice!” she said, when I told her I had to work all weekend.
A traffic cop gets suspended for not paying his parking tickets
The audience knows the killer is hiding in a closet in a scary
movie but the actors do not.
The Titanic was said to be unsinkable but sank on its first
voyage.

Oxymor
on
Two contradictory terms used together.
Justin and Marianne’s relationship is bittersweet.
Jane Austen’s life is an open secret only known to a few.
The characters in Ang Huling El Bimbo musical are
acting naturally which amaze the audience.
“Teachers are always on working vacation, don’t you think?”

a statement which seems to contradict itself but which contains a deeper
truth. Paradoxes are similar to oxymorons, but where an oxymoron puts
opposite words together, a paradox puts opposite ideas together.Paradox
The child is father of the man.
The Rainbow, William Wordsworth
Cowards die many times before their death.
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Everything I say is a lie.

Allusion
It is a reference, either direct or indirect, to a
well-known person, place or event.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michaelangelo
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, T.S Elliot
I violated the Noah rule: predicting
rain doesn't count; building arks does.
Warren Buffett
As for old Mr. Burns, he was visited by three ghosts
during the night and agreed to fund the school with
some money he found in his tuxedo pants.
The Simpsons
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Indirect
Direct

Apostrop
he
O Death, where is thy sting? O
grave, where is thy victory?
The Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:54–55
addressing an object or an idea as if it were a person

Synecdoc
he
 when a part represents the whole or the whole is
represented by a part
Alexandra Ward is so excited fro the new wheels her
parents bought from Paris.
I want a Coke, Miss.
The police wants her bag to be inspected.
Wheels means car
The police means one
policeman
Coke means any coca-cola
drink

Onomatop
oeia
a word that sounds like what it is
describing
The water whoosh in the river.
Buzz, buzz – the bees buzz.
The knob clicks at the sight of the key.
Oink! Oh, the pig oinks!

Alliteration The repetition of the beginning sounds of neighboring
words
She sells seashells in the seashore.
Walter wondered where Winnie was.
Nick needed new notebooks.
Fred fried frogs.

Literary Devices
Imagery

Sensory Images or imagery are important in any literary
texts for they make the texts’ situations come alive for
the readers.
the use of vivid detailed descriptions that evoke
sensory images. Imagery is employed to give the
reader the sense that he or she can see, hear, feel,
smell, or otherwise experience what is being
described.

“I heard a Fly buzz – when I died
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm.”
I heard a Fly buzz, Emily Dickinson
The sound imagery of the solitary buzzing in otherwise complete stillness
contributes to the poem’s theme of death.

I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit by thy side. The works
that I have in hand I will finish afterwards.
Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite,
and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless seas of toil.
Today the summer has come to my window with its sighs and murmurs; and
the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.
Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing
dedication of life in this life and overflowing leisure.
A Moments Indulgence, Rabindranath Tagore
The colored lines are sufficient to show what the author of the selection
wants to appeal to reader’s senses.

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