3. WHAT IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH
Figure of speech
Noun:
A word or phrase used in a non-literal
sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.
4. Here are the 5 common figures
of speech:
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Rhetorical question
• Personification
• Hyperbole
5. METAPHOR
•When you use a metaphor you
are saying that a person, place,
animal or a thing is something
else
Life is a
roller
coaster
She’s a
shining
star!
6. SIMILE
• A figure of speech involving the
comparison of one thing with
another thing of a different kind,
used to make a description
more emphatic.(e.g. as brave as a
lion ). EXAMPLE OF SIMILE
9. RHETORICAL QUESTION
• A rhetorical question is a question asked to make
a point, rather than get an answer.
EXAMPLE: Isn't it
obvious?
10. 3. Personification
• A FIGURE OF SPEECH in which animals,
ideas, or objects are given human
characteristics or form.
EXAMPLE OF
PERSONIFICATION
11. For example…
• The tree bowed and waved
to me in the wind.
• Does this mean a tree actually recognized I was
there and acknowledged me by taking a bow and
waving to me? Absolutely not!
• The tree is being given the human characteristics or
actions of waving and bowing. The tree is being
personified. It now has character.
12. What is the meaning of this…?
• The tree bowed and waved
to me in the wind.
• This simply draws the picture in our minds that it
must be an extremely windy day for the trees
branches to ‘wave’ and the trunk to bend as if it
were ‘bowing.’
• The tree is being given the human characteristics or
actions of waving and bowing. The tree is being
personified. It now has character.
13. 4. Hyperbole
•A FIGURE OF SPEECH in which
an exaggeration or
overstatement is made to
illustrate a point.
14. For example…
• I’m so hungry I could eat a
horse!
and
• Ten thousand suns light up
this room.
• Does this mean I could actually eat an entire horse
or that this room is blindingly bright from actual
suns? Of course not!
