#OOTD

Differentiate literal from figurative language

Recognize most commonly used figures of
speech
Perform a song with figure/s of speech
'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
FIREWORK

Katy Perry
Literal Language
You say exactly what you
mean. You make no
comparison, and you do
not exaggerate or
understate the situation.
Figurative Language
You DO NOT say exactly
what you mean.
1. The water was rising in the river
because of the rain.
2. When she sings her voice is like
velvet.
3. Half of the class did not complete
the assignment.
4. Mike was so angry that steam was
coming out of his ears.
5. I’ve told you a million times to clean
up your room.
Figures
of
Speech
COMPARISON
Simile
It is comparing two unlike things using
the word “like” or “as”.
Metaphor
It is comparing two unlike things without
using like or as. Calling one thing,
another. Saying one thing is something
else.
SOUND
Onomatopoeia
It is the use of a word to describe or imitate a
natural sound made by an object or action.
Words that sound like what they mean.
Alliteration
It is the repetition of a consonant sound.
 Alliteration in Poetry
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
“Let us fly,” said the flea;
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Assonance
It is the repetition of a vowel sound or
diphthong in non-rhyming words.
Assonance
It is the repetition of a vowel sound or
diphthong in non-rhyming words.
ASSOCIATION
Metonymy
It is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is not called
by its own name, but by the name of something intimately
associated with that thing or concept.
Synecdoche
It is a figure of speech which allows a part to
speak for a whole or for a whole to speak for
a part.
CONTRAST
Oxymoron
It is the use of words or phrases in which
contradictory or opposite terms are used
together.
 Paradox
It is a statement that contradicts itself, or
that must be both true and untrue at the
same time.
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you
do it.” -Gandhi
“It’s weird not to be weird.” -John Lennon
“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the
future is to live as if there were none.” -Albert Einstein
“I know one thing: that I know nothing.” -Socrates (via Plato)
 Irony
It is a figure of speech in which there is a
contradiction of expectation between what is
said what is really meant.
 Types of Irony
Verbal irony:
It is a contrast between what is said and what is meant
Dramatic irony:
It occurs when the audience or the reader knows more than the
character about events. In other words, what the character thinks is
true is incongruous with what the audience knows.
Situational irony:
This refers to the contrast between the actual result of a situation
and what was intended or expected to happen.
OTHERS
Hyperbole
It is an exaggeration so dramatic, no one
could believe it; overstates to emphasize a
point.
Personification
It is giving human characteristics to things
that are not human.
 Allusion
It is used to refer another object outside of the work of
literature. The object can be a real or fictional person,
event, quote, or other work of artistic expression.
Perform a song with figure of speech.
 Seatwork
1.People crowded around the movie idol as thick as
flies at a picnic.
2. In the rough sea, the yacht lights were
glimmering fireflies.
3. Variety is the spice of life.
4. Were I Midas, I would make nothing else but
such golden days as these.
5. It is useless to preach to empty stomachs.