I.

Objectives

A. Content Standard The learners demonstrate an

understanding of the: use of figurative

language and rhetorical devices

B. Performance Standard The learners must be able to: create a

sentence or poem using figurative

language and rhetorical devices

C. Learning Competencies Identify sentences in which figurative

language is present and rhetorical devices

D. Learning Objectives After 45 minutes of discussion, 80% of the

student learners should be able to…

1. Define what is figurative language

and rhetorical devices

2. Identify whether the sentences

presented is using figurative or

rhetorical devices

3. Create their own poem including

figurative language and rhetorical

devices

II. Content

A. Subject English 8

B. Topic Figurative Language

C. English Processing Skills Reading, Analysing, Writing

III. Procedures

Teachers Activity Student Activity

a. Daily Routine

Good morning/ afternoon class! Good morning/ afternoon ma’am!

Let us start our class first with a prayer. One student will raise his/her hand and will

Who would like to lead? lead the prayer.

Thank you. You may now take your The student took a seat.

seat.

Students say present and raise their hand

Now, let us check your attendance. Say when their name is being called.

present when your name is called.

 Summative Test No.1

Figurative Language and Rhetorical Devices

Name: Grade&Section: Date:

Test I

MULTIPLE CHOICES

Direction: Read and analyze carefully the following items. Write the answer before the

number.

1. It is the use of words in a way that deviates from the conventional order and

meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning, colorful writing, clarity, or

evocative comparison.

a) Simile

b) Metaphor

c) Figurative language

d) Rhetorical devices

2. It a stated comparison between two unlike things or persons that have something

in common using like or as.

a) Simile

b) Metaphor

c) Figurative language

d) Rhetorical devices

3. The direct comparison without using the comparative words "like" or "as."

a) Simile

b) Metaphor

c) Figurative language

d) Rhetorical devices

4. It uses two opposite ideas to create an effective description.

 a) Metaphor

b) Figurative language

c) Oxymoron

d) Personification

5. It is the over-exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description.

a) Oxymoron

b) Personification

c) Alliteration

d) Hyperbole

6. The attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things.

a) Personification

b) Alliteration

c) Pun

d) Simile

7. _________ is when a person says one thing but means the opposite.

a) Personification

b) Alliteration

c) Situational irony

d) Verbal irony

8. It is a figurative language that plays on words with humorous, witty effects.

a) Alliteration

b) Pun

c) Simile

d) Personification

9. It is the use of a word to signify the opposite of its literal meaning.

a) Irony

b) Alliteration

c) Situational irony

d) Pun
10. The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close to each other in a

sentence or phrase.

a) Assonance

b) Alliteration

c) Situational irony

d) Rhetorical devices

11. An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another

text.

a) Situational irony

b) Rhetorical devices

c) Allusion

d) Irony

12. The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with

it.

a) Situational irony

b) Rhetorical devices

c) Allusion

d) Onomatopoeia

13. What rhetorical device uses repetition of words or phrases in a group of

sentences, clauses, or poetic lines?

a) Allusion

b) Onomatopoeia

c) Assonance

d) Anaphora

14. It is the type of irony where the audience knows something that characters do

not.

a) Situational irony

b) Personification

c) Alliteration
 d) Dramatic irony

15. What is the figure of speech that uses understatement to make a point and is

often sarcastic in tone?

a) Litotes

b) Pun

c) Simile

d) Metaphor

Test II.

IDENTIFICATION

Direction: Identify the figurative language or rhetorical devices use in each sentences.

Choose your answer inside the box and write it on the blank provided before the

number. Write your answer legibly.

Allusion Onomatopoeia Assonance Anaphora Simile Metaphor Situational irony

Personification Alliteration Hyperbole Pun Metonymy

______1. Jay’s laugh was like music to my ears.

______2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

______3. The fire station burned down while the firefighters were away.

______4. The world is a stage, and we are merely players.

______5. Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better.

______6. Minghao’s smile was like Mona Lisa's, mysterious and timeless.

______7. The bees buzzed around the garden, filling the air with their hum.

______8. The wind whispered through the trees.

______9. I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!

 ______10. I’m reading a book about mazes—I got lost in it.

Test III

TRUE OR FALSE

Direction: Write F is the statement is false and T if it is true. Write the answer before

the number.

1. Hyperbole is a type of understatement.

2. Oxymoron is a figure of speech where two contradictory terms appear together.

3. Figurative language is the use of words in a way that deviates from the

conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning,

colorful writing, clarity, or evocative comparison.

4. Metaphor is the direct comparison without using the comparative words "like" or

"as."

5. Assonance, alliteration, and oxymoron are types of rhetorical devices.

Test IV

ESSAY

Direction: For 20 points, create a two stanza poem that uses figurative language and

rhetorical devices.