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 Let us read the line:

My love is like a red

rose
By, Robert Burns
What can you say
about the line?
How does his love
being describe by
Robert Burns?
Figures of
Speech
Figures of Speech
are like make up.
They make your
words and
sentences beautiful.
A figure of speech is a
word or phrase that has a
meaning something
different than its literal
meaning. It is used to add
color to the language.
Different figures of speech
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Read the
poems
orally.
Simile

SIMILE
A figure of speech
involving the comparison
of one thing with another
thing of a different kind. It
uses the word as or like.
 EXAMPLES:
Tony is as kind as an angel.
My dress is as red as blood.
Her hair is like of a golden
chain.
My brother is strong like a
gorilla.
Metaphor
 METAPHOR
It is a figure of speech
that compares two
unlike objects directly.
It doesn’t use the word
like or as.
EXAMPLES:
Life is a long movie.
My mother is a
superwoman.
Charlotte’s dress is a
garden of flowers.
Jenny’s height is that of an
elf.
Personification
PERSONIFICATION
It is a figure of
speech that is giving
life to inanimate
objects and animals.
EXAMPLES:
The birds sang
happily in the trees.
The rose smiled
sweetly at me.
The ball flew towards
the ring.
Hyperbole
HYPERBOLE
It is an exaggerated
statement or claims
not meant to be taken
literally.
EXAMPLES:
My happiness reached the
stars that day.
Sheila cried a river when
her grandmother died.
In his hair lives a trillion
lice.
 P
ACTIV
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Read and classify
the following
sentences in the
following tables.
Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole
TEST!
 Identify whether the
following sentences are
a SIMILE,
METAPHOR,
PERSONIFICATION,
or HYPERBOLE.
1. Life is
a barren
field.
2. They both
walked
slowly like
snails.
3. The ocean
leaps all day.
4. A ruby is
as red as
blood.
5. Chloe writes
so fast, she
could finish a
whole book in
a day .
ANSWERS:
1. METAPHOR
2. SIMILE
3. PERSONIFICATION
4. SIMILE
5. HYPERBOLE
ASSIGNMENT:
Write 2
sentences each of
the figure of
speech learned.