This document discusses identifying figures of speech. It defines a figure of speech as using words or phrases to express meanings other than literal meanings. It then defines and provides examples of three common figures of speech: similes, which use "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things; metaphors, which directly compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as"; and personification, giving human attributes to non-human objects. The document provides exercises for students to identify these figures of speech in examples. It assigns reading a selection and answering questions to help prepare students.

1. References: ECAS 7 PP. 28-33
Identifying
Figures of Speech

2. Most Essential Learning
Competencies:
Identify the Figures of
Speech used.
Construct a sentence
using figure of speech.

3. Elsa seems cold as ice.

4. The breeze was gentle like a butterfly.

5. He soared like an eagle.

6. Identifying Figures of Speech
A Figure of Speech is a word or
phrase used to express a
meaning other than the literal
meaning.

7. Identifying Figures of Speech
Simile
Metaphor
Personification

8. Identifying Figures of Speech
Simile - uses the words like or as
to compare two unlike things
Example: Lumnay danced like a
bird, graceful and light as in flight.

9. Identifying Figures of Speech
Metaphor- compares two unlike
things by saying that one thing is the
other thing. It does not use like or as.
Example: The Philippine is the Pearl of
the Orient Seas.

10. Identifying Figures of Speech
Personification- is giving human attributes to
objects that are not human.
Examples:
Flowers on the mountainside danced as Aliguyon
and Bugan passed by.
Now and then, lightning swalloed the darkness in
the stormy night.

11. She moved as gracefully as a
prima ballerina.

12. His alarm yelled on him.

13. She's going through a
rollercoaster of emotions.

14. His mind is like an encyclopedia.

15. Identifying Figures of Speech
Do Exercise 5 p. 29. Decide whether the figure of
speech used in the sentence is a simile, a
metaphor, or a personification.
______1. Youth is the virgin morning, the seedtime
of life... (Ibhrahim Jubaira)
______2. Why does the sea laugh, Mother?
______3. Like an angry giant, the storm uprooted
trees and hurdled the roofs of houses across

16. Identifying Figures of Speech
Do Exercise 5 p. 29.
_____4. Bugan is the brilliant sun that warms the
earth and drives away the chill of the night. (The
Prowess of Aliguyon)
_____5. Death comes like a thief in the night... (The
Bible)
_____6. My heart cries for you, sighs for you.

17. Assignment:
Do p. 30 Exercise 6 A, 1-4.
Prepare to read the selection "The
Cycle of the Sun and the Moon" as
you answer the ff. questions. Write
your responses on the lines.

18. Assignment:
If you were a father who lived
with your children but could not
touch, kiss, or hug them, how
would you feel? What would you
do?
1.

19. Assignment:
2. How important are promises?
3. When are prohibitions good?
When are they bad?
4. What is the best thing to do when
you are angry?