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Module 13

ENGLISH
USING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
SIMILE, METAPHOR, HYPERBOLE

A DepEd-BEAM Distance Learning Program supported by the Australian Agency for International Development
 To the Learner

Dear Learner,

Did you have fun working on your previous module? I am sure you
enjoyed answering the exercises and did a great job.
Let us move on to another learning experience. I know you are
eager to learn more.
We are fun of comparing someone to something else using our
own imagination.
Whenever we describe qualities of person or things by comparing
and exaggerating them with someone else, we are using Figurative
Language.

Let’s Learn This

In this module, I have prepared exercises for you to do to

enhance your skill using your figurative language.
There are several forms of figurative language that add colors to
the words especially in literature; however, this module will focus only
on the basic forms.

Let’s Try This

Look at the picture below. Think that she is your mother. Write at
least one specific characteristic of your mother using direct and
indirect comparison and exaggeration. Write your answers on the
space provided below.

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Examples:

Direct
• My mother’s teeth is as white as pearl.

Indirect
• She is my guiding star.

Exaggeration
• Whenever I do wrong, she can forgive me hundred times.

Write your own answers here:

Direct
1. ________________________

Indirect
2. ________________________

Exaggeration
3.________________________

• Did you find it easy making your own sentences?

• Do not worry we will have more exercises to do.

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 Let’s Study This

Study the set of sentences below. Group it into three whether it

emphasizes direct, indirect and exaggeration comparison.

Life is but a dream.

People crowded around the actress as thick as files at the
picnic.

Marriage is a roller coaster ride.

The clouds are like ghosts sailing across the sky.

You have knocked me over the feather.

He has a brain size of a pea.

The dancer’s legs are as pliable as spaghetti.

Her life is all bed of roses.

It is going to take a billion years before you get through a
medical school.

Direct

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Indirect

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Exaggeration

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 Are you done answering the exercise? Compare your answers with
the correct answers below.

Direct

People crowded around the actress as thick as files at the picnic.

The dancer’s legs are as pliable as spaghetti.
The clouds are like ghosts sailing across the sky.

Indirect

Life is but a dream.

Her life is all bed of roses.
Marriage is a roller coaster ride.

Exaggeration

It is going to take a billion years before you get through a

medical school.
You have knocked me over the feather.
He has a brain size a pea.

• How many answers did you get?

• Let us talk about it.

 Go back to the correct answers. What did you notice with the
sentences that give direct comparison, indirect comparison
and exaggeration?

 Did you notice some cues to determine their differences?

What are they?

 Can you name the figurative language used in each set of

sentences? How about their definition?

Thus:

Whenever you describe something by comparing it with someone

else, you are using figurative language.

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What is FIGURATIVE LANGAUGE?

It is a language that uses words or expressions with a meaning

that is different from the literal interpretation. It goes beyond the
literal meaning of words in order to provide new effects or fresh
insights into an idea or a subject.

It is the use of expressions to communicate more than what the

writer says and suggests meaning without stating them.

What are the basic forms of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?

1. SIMILE (Direct Comparison) – is a figure of speech in which a

clear comparison is made between two things essentially unlike.
The comparison is made explicit by the use of some word or
phrase as like, as, than, similar to.

2. METAPHOR (Indirect Comparison) – is a figure of speech in which

a clear comparison is made between two unlike things that are
alike in the way they are identified. It is similar to SIMILE, but
does not use like or as. It involves an implied comparison
between two relatively unlike things using a form of be (is, was,
are, were …..)

3. HYPERBOLE (Exaggeration) – is a figure of speech of which a

deliberate exaggeration is made to emphasize a statement.

So, with the given definitions and differences of the three basic
forms of figurative language, I am sure you are now confident to move
on to the next exercise.

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 Let’s Do This

Read the poem “The Child In Me”. Pick out the figurative
languages that are found in the poem and write the number of each
figurative language in the corresponding figure.

“THE CHILD IN ME”

by: Irene Sanchez-Cutamora

1.
Folks, I want to tell you of this I know,
2.
Rich of lofty ideas and as famous as you;
3.
She dares to move the heaven’s bow,
4.
If obviously you ignore her though.
5.
Her aura lingers as warm as summer breeze,
6.
Her kissable and inquisitive lips are as red as roses;
7.
As black as ebony her curly hair is freeze,
8.
As far as the twilight years, in stature, she grows.
9.
Her eyes spark azure like the sky after the passing storm,
10.
As pure as an angel her intentions, if you will consider;
11.
Her hands are as smooth as satin when you touch its form,
12.
but as hot as firecracker on the thirty first of December.
13.
Have I told you her temper is as quick as a lightning in the eastern sky?
14.
She explodes like a volcano; oftentimes screaming in fear;
15.
As heavy as rain when you heard her cry,
16.
But her laughter is such a sweet music to my ear.
17.
She is a strong willed as a bull in the grazing land,
18.
Striving to get what she wants, grasping it tight;
19.
Yet, as soft as marshmallow when you grab her hand,
20.
And, as sweet as chocolates when she embraces you right.
21.
For me, she is such an extraordinary creature to see
22.
Radiating in the outside is her inner beauty;
23.
Regardless of her flaws, forever special she will be,
24.
Come what may, she will always be the child in me.

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HYPERBOLE

SIMILE

METAPHOR

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 Let’s Do More

Interpret your favorite stanza of the poem by drawing the

symbolic representation of your interpretation.

Describe your drawing and write below your reaction to the poem
using figurative language.

• Answers may vary.

• Ask your teacher to check your work.

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 Let’s Remember This

Her life is all His lips are

bed of roses. as red as
roses. The dancer’s
Variety is the Life is but a Her skin is legs are pliable
spice of life. dream. as dark as as spaghetti.
ebony. SIMILE
METAPHOR
It is a figure of speech It is a figure of speech
in which an implied in which an explicit
comparison is made His mind comparison is made The clouds
In the rough You are my
sea, the between two unlike is like a between two things are like ghosts
song playing sailing across
lights were things that are alike sponge. essentially unlike.
so softly in the sky.
glimmering in the way they are my heart.
fireflies. identified. People The feet
crowded around of a ballet
The trees are Marriage is a the actress as dancer should
the sentinels roller coaster thick as flies at point like
of the forests. ride. the picnic. arrowheads.

Figurative
Language

In terror, I
lived a whole
To be year in that Think first of
forgiven, we minute. the consequences
must forgive a hundred times
others seventy before making
times seven. HYPERBOLE any
It is a figure of decision.

It is going to
speech of which a
take a billion deliberate His reared
years before you exaggeration is arm crested
get through a the world.
made to emphasize
medical school.
a statement.
He was You could
a brain size have
of pea. knocked me
over with a
feather.

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 Let’s Test Ourselves

Have you heard the song entitled, Perhaps Love? If you can sing it
then do so. If not, try asking anybody in the family who can sing it for
you and listen intently. Can you identify the figurative language/s used
in the song?

Perhaps Love
(John Denver)

Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm

It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm
And in those times of trouble when you are most alone
The memory of love will bring you home

Perhaps love is like a window, perhaps an open door

It invites you to come closer, it wants to show you more
And even if you lose yourself and don’t know what to do
The memory of love will see you through

Love to some is like a cloud, to some as strong as steel

For some a way a living, for some a way to feel
And some say love is holding on and some say letting go
And some say love is everything, and some say they don’t know

Perhaps love is like the ocean, full of conflict, full of pain

Like a fire when it’s cold outside, thunder when it rains
If I should live forever, and all my dreams come true
My memories of love will be of you

Some say love is holding on, and some say letting go

Some say love is everything and some say they don’t know
Perhaps love is like the mountains, full of conflict, full of change
Like a fire when it’s cold outside, thunder when it rains
If I should live forever, and all my dreams come true
My memories of love will be of you

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A. What kind of figurative language is commonly used in the song?
Identify at least five simile and write your answers inside the boxes in
column A. In column B, create metaphor expressions out of it.
Column A Column B

1. Love is like a resting place. Love is a resting place.

2.

3.

4.

5.

• Ask your teacher to check your answers.

• I know you did well in this exercise. Keep up the good work!

B. From five exaggerated expressions about love. Write your

answers on the heart shapes provided.

Love moves
mountain.

Answers may vary.

Ask your teacher to check your answers.

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 Let’s Enrich
Ourselves

Write S in the first blank if the figure of speech is a simile, write M

if it is a metaphor. Then write the two things being compared.

Example:
The rice mills with turning paddle wheels
looked like a fleet of boats.
1. S
2. rice mills and boats

Start here:

A. - Her hair looks like the sun’s rays.

1.
2. __________ and __________

- The river is like a big crawling snake.

3.
4. __________ and __________

- The room was a beehive of busy boys and girls.

5.
6. __________ and __________.

B. Circle the letter of the meaning of each hyperbole.

7. The face of Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships.

a. Her beauty caused a war.

b. She caused ships to sink.
c. She was a witch that destroyed a thousand ships.

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8. It took him eons to give the answer.

a. He moves slowly.
b. It takes him a long time to answer.
c. He thinks deeply before talking.

9. They sat up a feast for a million mouths.

a. There was very much food to eat.

b. There were a million guests.
c. The feast fed a million people.

10. They always fill up numberless forms when applying for work.

a. There are many forms to distribute to persons looking for work.

b. The application forms they fill up cannot be counted.
c. Work applicants are asked to give much information about
themselves first.

• Are you done?

• How many correct answers did you get? __________
• Work well done!!! Proceed to the next module.

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 Answer Key

Let’s Do This

HYPERBOLE

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
METAPHOR 17
19
20

21

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Let’s Do More

Answers may vary. Let your teacher check your work.

Let’s Test Ourselves

Possible answers.

A.
Love is like a resting place. Love is a resting place

Perhaps love is like a window. Perhaps love is a window.

Love to some is like a cloud. Love to some is a cloud.

Love is like an ocean. Love is an ocean.

Love is like the mountains. Love is the mountains.

B. Answers may vary.

Let’s Enrich Ourselves

A.
1. S
2. hair and sun’s rays
3. S
4. river and snake
5. M
6. room and beehive of busy boys and girls
B.
7. c
8. b
9. a
10. b

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