FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE (Figures of Speech)

        I.            Simile

It is a comparison between two things that are not the same using like or as.

Examples:

1.       Your lips are like a red, red rose.

2.       “Cause she looks like a flower but she stings like a bee like every girl in history.”

-Ricky Martin

      II.            Metaphor

Stating one entity/thing is another for the purpose of comparing them in quality. Two nouns are compared (or contrasted) to one another; unlike simile, you don’t use like or as.

Examples:

1.       “But my heart is a lovely hunter that hunts on a lovely hill.”

2.       He was a lion in the battlefield.

    III.            Personification

It is attributing or applying human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

Example:

1.       The haughty lion surveyed his realm.

2.       My car was happy to be washed.

    IV.            Hyperbole

It is the use of exaggerated terms for emphasis. It is an exaggeration of a statement.

Example:

1.       “The bag weighted a ton.”

 (Hyperbole helps to make the point that the bag was very heavy although it is not probable that it would actually weigh a ton.)

2.       The whole world was staring at me.

3.       She is as big as an elephant.