ANDRES BONIFACIO INTEGRATED SCHOOL

City of Mandaluyong
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Academic Year 2018-2019
Learning Plan: Figures of Speech
Semester: 4th Quarter

Grade-Section Time
Capricorn 1:00pm-1:50pm
Aquarius 2:40pm-3:30pm
Libra 4:40pm-5:30pm
Leo 5:30pm-6:20pm
Gemini 6:20pm-7:10pm

Content Standard: The learner demonstrates understanding of the difference between literal and
figurative language.
Learning Reading Comprehension
Competencies  Analyze the figures of speech (Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration,
Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole, Personification, Irony) (EN8V-IIf-10.1.4)
Performance 1. The learner transfers learning by composing and delivering a persuasive
Standards speech based on an informative essay featuring use of properly
acknowledged information sources, grammatical signals for opinion-
making , persuasion, and emphasis, and appropriate prosodic features,
stance, and behavior.
At the end of the lesson the students are expected to:
1. Define figurative language.
2. Differentiate literal and figurative language
Objectives
3. Identify seven figures of speech.
4. Expound importance of using figurative language in literature.
5. Cite figures of speech used in a literary work.
Subject Matter: English: Figures of Speech
 Materials: Whiteboard marker
PowerPoint Presentation
Reference:
Figures of Speech [PDF] retrieved from
www.schoolAtoZ.com
List of Poems retrieved from
https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/
Value Statement: “Each of us must work for his improvement and at the same time share a general
responsibility for all humanity.”
― Marie Curie
Preliminaries: Opening Prayer
Greetings
Classroom Management
Motivation: 2 pics 1 phrase
The class is already divided into 6 groups. The teacher will present pairs of pictures that
describe a phrase. The students will guess the phrase that is being described by the given
pictures. Points will be given to every group for their correct answers.

Pictures:

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Phrases:
1. Piece of cake
2. Break a leg
3. Butterflies in my stomach
4. Speaking of the devil
5. On cloud nine
6. A blessing in disguise
 7. Once in a blue moon

The teacher will tell the students that these pictures can be all interpreted either
literally or figuratively. She will then ask the difference between literally and
figuratively.
Learning Discussion:
Strategies and SCRAMBLED LETTERS. The teacher will present the figures of speech through
Activities jumbled letters and will let them guess the correct word.
1. LEISIM
Answer: SIMILE
Definition: A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between
unlike objects using the words like or as.
Examples:
 Her skin was as white as snow.
 Grace was as light as a feather.
 You are acting like a baby.
 He is like the sun that shines in the morning.

2. HTAEMROP
Answer: METAPHOR
Definition: A figure of speech in which a comparison is drawn between two
unlike ideas without the use of like or as.

Examples:

 Fran is a teddy bear.

 That boy is a pig.
 Ana is an angel.

3. OBYREPHLE
Answer: HYPERBOLE
Definition: Hyperbole is a major exaggeration or overstatement. Authors
 use this figure of speech to emphasize or add humor.
Examples:
 My backpack weighs a ton.
 I’ve told you a million times.
 I almost died laughing.

4. MATONNEPOAOI
Answer: ONOMATOPOEIA
Definition: Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like its meaning.
 The cows go moo every morning.
 The bees buzz every time someone gets close their hive.
 The fireworks went boom and colored the night skies with red and
white.

5. NPRIESIONFCAITI
Answer: PERSONIFICATION
Definition: A figure of speech giving human traits or characteristics to
something that isn’t human, such as animals, objects or non-living things.
Example:
 The coconut tree shook her long hair.
 The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
 The fire swallowed the entire forest.

6. YNIOR
Answer: IRONY
Definition: Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a
way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the
words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than
what is generally anticipated.
Example:
 The doctor is as kind-hearted as a wolf.
  His friend’s hand was as soft as a rock.
 The student was given ‘excellent’ on getting zero in the exam.

7. IONRATLAELTI
Answer: ALLITERATION
Definition: Alliteration is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
Example:
 Brad wore his blue and brown blazer.
 Harry held his head high.
 Lay loves lemonades and lollipops.
 Six swans went swimming in the sea.

Questions during discussion:

1. How do the figures of speech improve a literary piece?
2. What is the importance of the use of figurative language?
3. Why do authors and poets use figures of speech in their writings?
4. Why do students need to learn about figurative language?

Activity:
IDENTIFYING THE FIGURES OF SPEECH THROUGH A SONG
The class will be grouped into 6. They will be given papers where the different
figures of speech are written. The teacher will play a line from a song and then let
the students identify what figure of speech was used in the song by raising the
paper given to them. 10 songs will be played. Points will be added to their previous
scores.
1. “Boom clap, the sound of my heart.”

2. “I'd catch a grenade for ya

Throw my head on a blade for ya
I'd jump in front of a train for ya”
 3. “Never mind
I’ll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you”

4. “I have died every day, waiting for you

Darling, don’t be afraid,
I will love you for a thousand years”

5. “Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass

He got that super bass”

6. “Cause after all,

the city never sleeps at night”

7. “It rained all night, the day I left, the weather it was dry
The sun so hot, I froze to death
Sussana don’t you cry”

8. “This one goes to the man who mines for miracles

This one goes out to the ones in need
This one goes out to sinners and cynical”

9. “I’m strong enough to climb the highest tower

I’m fast enough to run across the sea”

10. “Shot me out of the sky

You’re my kryptonite.
You keep me making me weak…”

ANSWERS:
1. Onomatopoeia
 2. Hyperbole
3. Simile
4. Hyperbole
5. Onomatopoeia
6. Personification
7. Irony
8. Alliteration
9. Hyperbole
10. Metaphor

Assessment IDENTIFYING FIGURES OF SPEECH USED IN A POEM

The teacher will present excerpts from different poems and let the students identify
what figure of speech was used in the poem.
1. Bang! The starter’s gun—
thin raindrops sprint.
-Dorthi Charles (Knock at a Star)

2. The wind stood up, and gave a shout;

He whistled on his fingers, and
-James Stephens (Knock at a Star)

3. I’m proud of my Preposterpus

so ponderous and pale
-Jack Pretulsky (A Pizza the Size of the Sun)

4. Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
-Langston Hughes (The Dream Keeper and Other Poems)
 5. I’m making a pizza the size of the sun,
a pizza that’s sure to weigh more than a ton,
a pizza too massive to pick up and toss,
a pizza resplendent with oceans of sauce.
-Jack Pretulsky (A Pizza the Size of the Sun)

6. The sea is a hungry dog,

Giant and grey.
-James Reeves (The Sea Poem)

7. I’ll hear no more;

it makes one’s blood run chill.
- Robert Blair (The Grave)

8. The air is like a mother’s hand

Laid softly on a throbbing brow,
- Annie Matheson (Sleep)

9. You are beautiful and faded

Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord;
Or like the sun-flooded silks
-Amy Lowell (A Lady)

10. The black earth embraces my ankles

And clings to my bent knees.
- Joseph Warren Beach (The Black Land)

ANSWERS:

1. Onomatopoeia
 2. Personification
3. Alliteration
4. Metaphor
5. Hyperbole
6. Metaphor
7. Irony
8. Simile
9. Simile
10. Personification
Assignment: Have an advance reading on the story, Paper by Catherine Lim.

Closure Figures of Speech present ordinary things as new or something unusual. It allows
us to communicate ideas that go beyond the literal meaning of the text.

Submitted by: MA. CARMELA P. MORES

Student Teacher

Submitted to: MARICRIS S. RARANGA

Critic Teacher

Approved by: EDNA M. JOYA

Subject Coordinator

CLARRISA P. TIBAR
Master Teacher II, English