Figure of Speech (Autosaved)
Figure of Speech (Autosaved)
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OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the learning discussion , Learners are expected to:
Listen to short stories/ poems . LS1CS/EN-L-PSALE-5.1
Identify the speaker in the story or poem . LS1CS/EN-L-PSALE-5.1.6
Note important details in narrative and informational text of poem listened to .
LS1CS/EN-L-PSAAE-5.2
Identify the figures of speech in a given text, poem, sentence and paragraph.
Classify the figures of speech according to its definition.
Analyze figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole) in a given text
• LS1CS/EN-R-PSD-LS-33.4
Use indirect speech to clarify the speaker’s ideas .LS1CS/EN-L-PSALS-5.3.3
o Look for a friend you can work/study
with.
o Choose the poem you like best and
recite it before the class.
o Then answer the questions according
to the poem selected.
READ THE POEM “FLYING KITE” ALOUD AS
IF YOU WERE SHARING IT WITH A FRIEND.
Flying Kite
Frank Dempster Sherman
I often sit and wish that I
Could be a kite up in the sky,
And ride upon the breeze and go
Whatever way it chanced to blow;
Then I could look beyond the town,
And see the river winding down,
And follow all the ships that sail
Like me before the merry gale,
Until at last with them I came
To some place with a foreign name.
Palace If you are living near a
Dorothy Vena Johnson
river or a sea, do you
A seashell is a palace enjoy walking along the
Where many echoes dwell,
She is little, she is dimpled 2. Have you seen such a little girl?
Her hair is yellow corn
On her cheeks are many smudges
And her pinafore is torn. 3. To what is her hair compared?
Her eyes are dancing waters
On a deep, midsummer day, 4. Her eyes?
Yet her mouth will turn to pouting
In a most capricious way.
5.Her laughter?
But her laughter is as joyous
As the little winds that run
On amber feet across the seas 6.What would you feel if you were
Of wheat fields in the sun.
with a girl like this little girl?why?
And her laughter is as delightful
As a carillon of bells
In an ancient, wooded tower
Where a charming fairy dwells .
.
C. Her eyes are dancing waters - Metaphor
2. Her laughter is as joyous as the little winds than run - Simile
3. Her laughter is as delightful
As a carillon of bells - Simile
4. Hers is the laughter from
the spirit - Metaphor
Spider Webs
1. What did the
James S. Tippet
spiders do in
The spiders were busy last nigh t, the night?
From every fence and tree
2. What did the
They hung their lacy webs
For all the world to see.
mist do?
3. What were
The mist was busy too;
In the still ness of the night
some of the
It strung the spider webs with pearls webs compared
To catch the morning light . to?
One spider wove a web
Like frost on a window pane;
Another one spun a single thread
That looks like jeweled chain.
4. sunbeams kiss
5. spiders busy
A figure of speech is an expression within a sentence
that departs from simple, normal speech to create
different feelings, stimulate the imagination, or paint
the pictures in the mind of the reader.
1. A simile is a figure of speech in which two different
– Because of the continuous rain, the roads have become like rivers.
A. muddy
B. flooded
C. dusty
D. story
– The last time my uncle saw me, he said I was as thin as a beanpole.
A. very strong
B. very straight
C. very slender
D. very smart
– Brenda’s baby brother is a dumpling.
A. small and thin
B. round and fat
C. long and fat
D. long and round
– People who do not think for themselves are like puppets.
A. active
B. proud
C. ruled by others
D. smart
– The house was like a beehive before the important visitors arrived.
A. busy
B. quiet
C. empty
D. clean
– Marina is the apple of her father’s eye.
A. target
B. favorite
C. direction
D. hated
Test your self
Read each sentence carefully. Identify the figure of speech used. Write S for simile, M for metaphor, P
for personification, H for hyperbole in your notebook.
1. The stars are jewels strung in a golden chain across the dark sky.
2. The hanging bridge is like a giant hammock swaying wildly during the storm.
3. The guest of honor’s message was a mile long.
4. The moonbeams smiled sweetly.
5. The street dancers wore costumes as colorful as rainbows.
6. The whispering breeze soothes my troubled soul.
7. Her tears are dewdrops on a cold summer morning.
8. The night sighed itself to sleep.
9. The rescue team and the volunteers burned up the telephone lines as they discussed
their plans.
10. When his brother died all his hopes collapsed like a sand castle.
PRACTICE TIME
A. Starter
1.simile
2.metaphor
3.simile
4.simile
5.personification
6.metaphor
7.simile
8.personification
9.metaphor
10. personification
2. e. simile
f. D