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Lesson 1 Part 3 Figures of Speech

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H o n e s t y i s t h e b e s t p o l i c y.

Welcome to
Creative Writing
Class
Targets

At the end of the lesson, the


students should be able to:
• Appreciate the use of figures
of speech and diction in
creative writing
Targets

• Enumerate the different figures of


speech,
• Write a short creative piece
which contains figures of speech
Figures of Speech
- words or phrase that
possesses a separate
meaning from its
literal definition.
Figures of Speech
- that which
increase reading
pleasure.
Figures of Speech
- that which would
deepen the reader’s
comprehension of a
text.
Sample Text
“Then she burst into view,
a girl lovely as morning
and just as fair…”
(Waywaya, F. Sionil Jose)
SIMILE
Indirect
comparison of two
things using “like”
or “as”.
Sample Text
“Everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals, were
little boats that set toward the
isles of your that wait for
me…”
(If You Forget Me, Pablo Neruda)
METAPHOR
Direct comparison
between two
objects
Sample Text
“Because I could not stop for
Death, He kindly stopped for
me; The carriage held but just
ourselves And Immortality.”
(Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Emily Dickinson)
PERSONIFICATION
Attribution of
human qualities to
a thing
Sample Text
“Well now, one winter it was so cold
that all the geese flew backward and
all the fish moved south, and even the
snow turned blue. Late at night, it got
so frigid that all spoken words froze
solid afore they could be heard.”
(Babe, the Blue Ox, retold by S.E. Schlosser)
HYPERBOLE
Exaggeration
Sample Text
“Leap up, like that,
like that, and land so
lightly.”
(Home Burial, Robert Frost)
ALLITERATION
Repetition of the
first consonant of
neighboring words
Sample Text
“The morning wind forever blows;
the poem of creation is
uninterrupted, but few are the ears
that hear it. Olympus is but the
outside of the earth everywhere.”
(Walden, Henry David Thoreau)
ALLUSION
Use of person,
place or thing as
reference
Sample Text
“Boy, I rang that doorbell fast
when I got to old Spencer’s
house.”
(The Catcher in The Rye, J.D.
Salinger)
ONOMATOPOEIA
Use of words that
mimic sounds
Sample Text
Mark is asking
for the hand of
our daughter.
SYNECDOCHE
A figure of speech
in which a part is
used to represent
the whole.
Sample Text
“bitter
sweet”
OXYMORON
It is the combination of
contradictory or
incongruous words such as
cruel kindness
Sample Text
We shall meet
on the beach to
reach the
“Meach”
Concert.
ASSONANCE
The identity or similarity in
sound between internal
vowels in neighboring
words.

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