FIGURATIVE

LANGUAGE
- wordor group of words that
contains images

- also called tropes

 SIMILE
- a direct comparison between two
unlike things that have something in
common
- like, as, as if, as in, similar to or
resemble
EXAMPLES:
• Her lips are as soft as the
clouds.
• The spy was concerned as the
rat.
 METAPHOR
- an implied comparison
between two unlike things
EXAMPLES:
•The sun is a magician.
•She is a tiger when she’s
angry.
 HYPERBOLE

- a statement that exaggerates

for artistic effect
EXAMPLES:
• Her arms can dangle several
miles.
• I’ve told you a million times not
to call me a young boy.
 PERSONIFICATION

- the transfer of human qualities or

abilities to inanimate objects
EXAMPLES:
• The wind sings a song so gently.
• Money talks.
 IRONY

- the use of words to suggest the

opposite of what is meant
EXAMPLES:
• The Philippines has one of the
most honest set of officials.
• I’m so glad you broke up with
me.
 OXYMORON

- the combination of two

mutually contradictory words,
usually for descriptive purposes
EXAMPLES:
• Parting is such a sweet sorrow.
• There is a deafening silence in
the room.
 PARADOX
- a statement that seemingly
contradictory but may actually
be true
EXAMPLES:
• Her family is alone in the midst
of crowded cities.
• He is a well-known secret agent.
 METONYMY
- the substitution of a word for
another which it suggests
EXAMPLES:
• Malacañang declared this day a
holiday.
• We await a decision from the
crown.
 SYNECDOCHE
- the use of significant part to
stand for the whole or the whole
is substituted for its part
EXAMPLES:
• Life is hard if you have eight
hungry mouths to feed.
• She didn’t lift a finger to help me.
 ALLUSION
- a figure of speech that makes
reference to historical, literary,
and biblical figure to make the
statement more meaningful
EXAMPLES:
• He is the Judas in the group.
• Pride is the Achilles’ heel of
mankind.
 APOSTROPHE
- a statement that addresses an
absent person as if present; dead
person as if alive or abstract
quality
EXAMPLES:
• “Freedom! You are a beguiling
mistress!”
• “Rizal! Are these the hope of the
fatherland?”
 CLIMAX

- the arrangement of a series of

words in an ascending order of
importance
EXAMPLES:
• “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
- Julius Caesar
• “Some books are to be tasted; others
to be swallowed; and a few to be
chewed and digested.”- Francis
Bacon
ACTIVITY
1. I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.
2. He moves like a snail.
3. The book was a time machine that
transported him to other eras.
4. “O Death, where thy sting?”
5. He was as brave as the lion.
6. I nearly died laughing.
7. Where is the original copy of
it?
8. Less is more.
9. The world treated him badly.
10. The pen is mightier than the
sword.