ONE MINUTE

OF SILENCE
SPEAK A
MINUTE
If you will be given a chance to talk to a very
famous person in the world (may it be alive
or deceased) who will it be? why and what
issue would you like to address to him/her?
FIGURES OF
SPEECH
Figure of speech is a word or phrase used in
a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid
effect.
 SIMILE
- a figure of speech with an indirect
comparison of two things with the use of “as”
or “like”
Examples:
 METAPHOR
- a figure of speech having a direct
comparison of two things without using “as”
or like”
PERSONIFICATION
-the attribution of a personal nature or
human characteristics to something
nonhuman, or the representation of an
abstract quality in human form.
 HYPERBOLE

- These are exaggerated statements or

claims not meant to be taken literally.
 ONOMATOPOEIA

-It is the formation of a word from a sound

associated with what is named
SEATWORK
Copy each sentences in your Reading Notebook. Identify the following
figures of speech used in each sentence.
Write Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole or
Onomatopoeia as your answers on the line before each number.

_____1. Krrriiiiinnnngggg!!! Ana, could you please anwer the telephone?! It's ringing!
_____2. Lisa danced as graceful as the swan during their Ballerina concert.
_____3. The bacon sizzled in the pan while my mom was cooking breakfast.
_____4. Can we sit down for a minute? my new shoes are killing me!
_____5. The Lord is my Shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
_____6.Carmela's cheeks turn red like roses everytime she sees her crush.
_____7. I consider my dad as my knight in shining armor because he's my savior.
_____8. Jen's mom is surely going to explode the moment she sees her grades.
_____9. Carl, can I borrow your umbrella? It's raining cats and dogs outside.
_____10. Andrew runs as fast as a cheetah during the 100-m dash relay.
_____11. The leaves of the trees dances with the winds.
_____12. Kate cried a river when her favorite pet dog died.
_____13. Are you hungry Lori? I can hear your stomach rumbling.
_____14. Yes, I am hungry Jan. In fact, I can eat a horse right now.
_____15. The moon smiled at me during night time.
 APOSTROPHE
A figurative language that is meant talking to
animals, plants, objects, ideas or dead
persons as if they are human beings, alive
or present during the utterance.
Tell me, Mt. Mayon,
where did you get all
your beauty?
O wild wind! blow to us the
breezeof existence!
 LITOTES
It is the opposite of hyperbole which is the
use of understatement.
The movie that we have just seen was not
that bad.

which means: Good or Okay

I think the bridge that was constructed at the
8th street was of no use.
 METONYMY

• It is the use of substitution by using a word

in place of another.
He is the crown of the village.
 SYNECDOCHE
• It is using a part to represent the whole or
whole to represent a part.
The kettle is boiling!
Jack bought a new set of
wheels.
• Open you PLP book to page 117
and answer the Starter exercise
and the reinforcer activity on
pages 118-119.