Ridgewood School of Caloocan, Inc.: English 9 - Hand Outs
Ridgewood School of Caloocan, Inc.: English 9 - Hand Outs
Ridgewood School of Caloocan, Inc.: English 9 - Hand Outs
For example:
Starlings
This cold grey winter afternoon
The starlings
On the television aerial
Look like sultanas
On a stalk - Lucy Hosegood
*Likening the starlings on the television aerial to sultanas on a stalk is a most unexpected comparison.
2. Metaphor - Like a simile, metaphor also makes a comparison, not by saying that one
thing is „like‟ or „as‟ another, but by asking us to picture it as though it is the other thing. In
this way, the comparison is more direct than with a simile.
For example:
The Beach
The beach is a quarter of golden fruit,
a soft ripe melon sliced to a half moon curve,
having a thick green rind of jungle growth;
and the sea devours it with its sharp, sharp white teeth.
- William Hart-Smith
*In this poem, the poet directly compares the beach to a quarter of soft ripe melon being eaten.
3. Personification - It is a special kind of metaphor in which human qualities are given to non-
living things.
For example:
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
*In this example, the sun is called a fool and abused because of its annoying habit of peeking in through the
windows and curtains on the activities of the speaker and his mistress.
4. Alliteration - It is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of two or more
words in a line of poetry.
For example:
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
From the „Rime of the Ancient Mariner‟ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The alliteration of the f and the b creates a sense of the sailing ship’s speed through the water and the excitement of
the experience.
5. Hyperbole - It is nothing more than a very large exaggeration or overstatement and is often
used for emphasis. In other words, it expresses exaggeration to emphasize the grandness of an
image.
My Dog
His bark breaks the sound barrier
His nose is as cold as an ice box.
A wag of his tail causes hurricanes
His jumping causes falling rocks.
He eats a mountain of dog food
And drinks a water fall dry.
But though he breaks the bank
He’s the apple of my eye.
*The poem above is a description of the speaker’s dog. In the first line of the poem, the dog’s bark is described as
being so loud that it breaks the sound barrier while the second line is an example of simile, comparing the coldness
of the dog’s nose to an ice box. Using hyperbole, the poet is emphasizing the qualities of the dog.
6. Onomatopoeia - Many words in English actually suggest the sound of the action they are
describing: the sound echoes the sense of the word. Words such as oozing, purr, gurgle, and
smash are a few examples of the many sound words we come across every day. The use of
sound-words in poetry is called onomatopoeia.
For example:
Inside, the hammered anvil’s short-pitched ring,
The unpredictable fantail of sparks
Or hiss when a new shoe toughens in the water.
*We are presented here with the sounds of a horseshoe being made at the forge through the poet’s use of
onomatopoeia.
7. Idiom - A phrase that has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.
For example:
Don't rock the boat-do not cause problems
Going out on a limb-taking a risk
Hit the road-leave
Hit the hay/sack-you are going to go to sleep
I'm all ears-ready to listen
Lend someone a hand-help someone out
That is over her/his head-they don't understand
ACTIVITY:
Practice identifying types of figures of speech used in the given statements or
sentences. (Worksheets in each type will be given.)
ACTIVITY:
Identify the examples of Sensory languages (images) from the poem, “When I Went to
the Circus” found on pp. 58-59 of English Spectrum 9 book.
Visual Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Tactile Imagery
Kinesthetic Imagery
STRATEGY:
Read and Response Approach
The teacher will give a short passage and the students are tasked to get the conclusion
based on their understanding.
STRATEGY:
Guided Response
How are phrases and clauses different from each other?
Examples:
Where I developed my values. {Dependent clause}
I will go back to school. {Independent
clause}
ACTIVITY:
Activity # 1: Phrases or Clauses Worksheet
Activity # 2: Make a simple descriptive paragraph entitled, “My Unforgettable Day”.
Encircle the phrases and underline the clauses used in the paragraph.
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