Literary Devices

1. PRAYER

3. CHECKING OF
ATTENDANCE

4. EN7LT-I-d-2.2.2:
Explain the literary devices used.
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
Objectives
EN7LT-I-d-1:
Discover literature as a means of connecting to
a significant past.

5. What is literary
writing?

6. You are the apple of my eye.
A. B.

7. DEVICES
Literary

8. OF SPEECH
Figures

9. FIGURES OF SPEECH
 A figure of speech can be generally
defined as a deviation from the
normal use of words in grammar.
 It is basically a figurative language
containing words that are expressed
in a non-literal sense.

10. 1. SIMILE
 It is an expression comparing one thing
to another using the words “like” or
“as”.

11. Example:
 Life is like a rollercoaster.
 The dancers roared like a lion.
 She runs like lightning.
 You are as cold as ice.
 Her bag is light as a feather

12. 2. METAPHOR
 It is a comparison of two unlike things
without using the words “like” or
“as”.

13. Example:
 All the world’s a stage.
 Time is gold.
 You are my sunshine.
 Your voice is music to my ears.
 He is a walking dictionary.

14. 3. HYPERBOLE
 It is an obvious exaggeration or
overstatement.

15. Example:
 I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
 It’s raining cats and dogs.
 I’m so tired I could sleep a year.
 I’m so thirsty I could drink the pacific
ocean.
 He’s as skinny as a toothpick.

16. 4. PERSONIFICATION
 It happens when a writer gives human
qualities to animals or objects.

17. Example:
 The plants are begging for water.
 The leaves are dancing.
 The birds are singing.
 The stars in the clear sky winked at me.
 The sun is smiling on us today.
 The sky is in tears.
 The cat laughed.

18. 5. ONOMATOPOEIA
 It is a word that imitates the sound it
represents.

19. Example:
 Meow
 Moo
 Tweet
 Oink
 Giggle
 Murmur
 Boom
 dingdong

20.  The rock fell into the river with a splash.
 The books fell on the table with a loud
thump.
 I think I heard a knock from the front
door.

21. 6. ALLITERATION
 It is the repetition of the same
consonant sound in words occurring
near one another.
 It is common in tongue twisters.

22. Example:
 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
 Sally sells seashells by the
 seashore.
 Go and gather the green leaves on the
grass.

23. 7. ASSONANCE
 It is the repetition of the same vowel
sounds.

24. Example:
 “On a proud round cloud in white high
night.”
 "It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!“
 "I must confess that in my quest I felt
depressed and restless.”

25. 8. APOSTROPHE
 It is sometimes represented by an
exclamation, such as “Oh.”
 It involves speaking to someone who is
not present or is dead, or to an
inanimate object.

26. Example:
 Feet, don't fail me now.
 Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder
what you are.
 Life, I cannot understand you.
 Oh, bed! At last; I can be with you!

27. ACTIVITY
Directions: Determine what figure of
speech the following belong.

28. 1. He ran like a cat, lightly and quietly.
2. Her blue mood passed as quickly as an
afternoon rain shower.
3. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your
balance, you must keep moving.
(Albert Einstein)
4. He was a statue, waiting to hear the
news.

29. 5. She was a mother hen, trying to take
care of everyone around her.
6. It’s so hot you could fry an egg on the
sidewalk.
7. She was so mad she was spitting
bullets.
8. My car drank the gasoline in one gulp.
9. The newspaper headline glared at me.
10.I heard a cat meows

30. THANK YOU!

31. SPELLING
ACTIVITY