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HANDOUT - 1 1st Term (2024-2025)

Name: Class: V Roll: Section:

Subject: Eng. Literature Teachers: Sabrina Alim / Sabrina Kadir Date:

Figurative Speech / Literary Device

A figure of Speech is a word, statement or phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal
definition. For example, we say our hands are frozen or I am so hungry that I can eat a horse. That
is how Figurative Language works. It is a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or
vivid effect. Figures of Speech can be found in both oral literature and polished poetry and prose, as
well as in everyday speech.
Some of the most common devices are:

1. Simile:
A simile is a type of figurative language which is used to compare one thing with another. Similes
compare the likeness of two things and often feature the words “like” or “as”.
Examples:

 as cold as ice
 as light as a feather
 as busy as a bee
 The twins are like two peas in a pod.
 The old woman is moving like a snail.

2. Metaphor:
Metaphors are direct comparisons that state one thing is another. Therefore, it is a comparison
between two dissimilar things. As a literary device, a metaphor creates implicit comparisons
without the use of the words “like” or “as”.
Examples:

 Time is money.
 I am drowning in a sea of grief.
 Mike is a worker bee today.
 She has a heart of gold.
 Bill is an early bird

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3. Personification:
Personification is a device that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or
ideas. The speaker would talk to the object as if it could understand and act on its own accord.
Examples:

 Opportunity knocked the door.


 My alarm yelled at me this morning.
 The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.
 My phone is not cooperating with me today.
 The West Wind joined arms with the North Wind and together they blew harder than ever.

4. Symbolism:
Symbolism is the idea of using a symbol to represent meaning, an idea or a quality. The symbols
that are given do not have the same literal meaning as the things to which they are referring.
Symbolism occurs when a word has its own meaning but is used to represent something entirely
different.
Examples:

 Black is the symbol of death.


 A dove is the symbol of peace.
 A red rose is the symbol of love and romance.
 An owl is the symbol of wisdom.
 A snake is the symbol of slyness and deceitfulness.

5. Alliteration:
Alliteration is a sound device. It is the repetition of the first consonant sound in several words.
Alliterative words do not have to be right next to each other; other words can appear between
them.
Examples:

 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.


 She sells seashells down by the seashore.
 Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the
bitter butter better.

6. Dialect:
Dialect is a term used to describe a form of language that is specific to a particular cultural
group, region, or social group.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer includes accurate Southern dialects, meaning that characters
speak in different ways so as to capture their geographic location, class position, racial identity,
and more. Twain’s attention to the different types of dialects is one of the reasons Tom Sawyer
is considered a realist novel—he accurately represents how people in Missouri spoke at the time.

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