Figure of Speech

and Art
Appreciation
Sir. Mark Cedrick T. Sihiyon
Table of Contents

The
Art
01 Figures of 02 Apreciation
Speech
The Figures
of Speech 01
 Imagery
It refers to the sensation that language create in the
mind. Images are wors and phrases that appeals to the
senses.
 Imagery
These sensations or image are not only limeted to
visual sensations. They also appeal to the senses of
taste, touch, hearing, and smell.
Figurative Language
It makes language more colorful, suggestive,
powerful and therefore exciting.
Figurative Language
It also means the use of word or phrase which refers
to something familiar in our experience to stand for
the idea, feeling or attitude we wish to communicate.
Figures of Speech
It is a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for
rhetorical or vivid effect.
The Figures of Speech:
Simile
It is an explicit or direct
comparison between two things of
different classes. Example: She
turns cold as a freezer.
Metaphor
It is bolder than simile and the
comparison is implied ore indirect
between two objects of different
classes. The comparison does not
use the expression like or as.
Example: The Lord is my
shepherd.
The Figures of Speech:

Personification Synecdoche Metonymy

It gives human qualities It names a part of an It involves the use of a
or attributes to non- object to stand for the term connected with an
human or inanimate whole, or the whole for a object to represent that
object. Example: The part. Example: He is my object. Example: I give
waves pounded furiously right arm. (trusted you the floor to speak.
against the jetties. assistant) (turn to speak)
The Figures of Speech:
Hyperbole
It involves a deliberate
exaggeration used for effect.
Example: A million thanks to you!
Oxymoron
It is putting side by side of two
normally contradictory word.
Example: cruel-kindness, bitter-
sweet memories, beautiful mess,
deafening silence.
The Figures of Speech:

Paradox Allusion Irony

It is saying something It is a casual reference It involves a contrast, a
which seems untrue, but either by directly or by discrepancy between the
on close examination, borrowing familiar expected and what
proves to be true or phrases from the bible, actually happens.
partly true. Example: history or literature. Example: You’re so kind
What you keep, you lose; Example: Bible: Henry to answer back your
what you lose, you keep. and Edison are the David parents.
and Jonathan in the
class.
The Figures of Speech:
Onomatopoeia
It is the formation or use of words
having a sound that imitates what
they denote. Example: Don’t
bang the door. Boom! Boom! The
canyon blasted. At midnight, I
could hear the tic, tac of the
clock.
Litotes
It is a deliberate understatement
used to affirm by negating its
opposite. Example: Even in her
plain dress, I find her not all
displeasing.
The Figures of Speech:
Apostrophe
It a direct address to someone
absent, long dead, or even to an
inanimate objects or ideas.
Example: Christmas, what can
you offer us this year? Jose Rizal,
where are the youth today?
Welcome, Oh life!
Alliteration
It is the repetition of the initial
consonant sound in the sentence.
It is also known as “tongue
twister”. Example: Peter Piper
picked a pack of pickled pepper.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers. A peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper
picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked?
 Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter
bitter
But a bit of better butter will make my batter
better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of
better butter
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he
could, and chuck as much wood
As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could
chuck wood
The Figures of Speech:
Assonance
It is the repetition of the middle
vowel sound. Example: race and
make, foolish and crooning, rain,
rain go away.
Consonance
It is sometimes called “slant”
rhyme. Both consonants occur at
the end of the word as in odds and
ends; Example: dreary and weary,
napping and tapping.
 Art
02 Appreciation
Purpose of Art
To express man’s feelings about his surroundings,
through the means and mater available to him,
depending on his style, capability and concept for
beauty.
Classification of Art and its Medium:

Architecture Sculpture
Structural materials for buildings. Materials for caving, casting,
modeling.
Classification of Art and its Medium:

Painting Music & Dance

Pigment on smooth surface. Sounds-vocal or man-made, body
movements.
Classification of Art and its Medium:

Literature Theater & Cinema

Language Picture frame, story and music or
visual performing art.
Why We Study
Literature: Its
Importance
 The importance of literature is …
Literature is a transmitter of values. It enhances
the understanding of values and moral that lend
support to good life; honesty, friendship, love of
country, respect for elders, self-discipline, justice
and honor.
Literature is a preserver of ideals, customs
and traditions. It is our link to the past.
Understanding our past wll help us
stengthen ou present and future from
lessons of the past.

Literature is a mirrior of culture. It Literature is an agent of change.

provides vicarious experiences that will
enrich our knowledge and perceptions of
life and humanity.
Literature contributes to significant
changes in society by inculcating the
promotion of ideals and ideas. It is a
potent force that influences people’s
thoughts into action.
 The importance of literature is …
Literature is a source of pleasure. It entertains
and gives pleasure. The story, the sound, and the
images presented in literary pieces are the usual
sources of pleasure.
Literature is experience. A student can
identify his own experience while reading
about the experiences of others, make
comparison of his experience with those
presented in vicarious situation presented in
literature.
Literature uses languages. Studying
literature enhances our knowledge of the
medium used by literature.
Literature promoted individual as well as social
insights. Individual’s innermost feelings and
thoughts are defined when readers identify
themselves with the characters in the situations.
Complexities of social life as depicted in
literature are important background material
studies of existing social problems.
 The importance of literature is …
Literature is an expression of man’s emotion and
ideas. These are clothed in the highest level of
language, and therefore, they give the greatest
insights into the character of a people
Literature enlarges the mind. Students’
awareness of the possibilities of life is
increased. It exhibits thoughts and feelings
not revealed by people in real life.
Literature, perhaps born out social needs, has
always had social function. It educates,
amuses, calms seditious minds, diverts
discontent, propagates certain beliefs and
discredits others.
Literature helps students make real choices. The
knowledge, especially concrete universals, we
get from literature increases our capacity for
making choices.
The importance of literature is …

Literature fulfill double role: it helps us

Literature is a way of knowing. It reveals understand ourselves better and it brings us
knowledge we already possess, but do not into closer communion with our fellowmen.
know that is already ours, until literature
reveals it to us.
Thank You
Sir. Mark Cedrick T. SIhiyon

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