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    This document provides an overview of different types of figurative language used in literature, including definitions and examples. It discusses similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, allusions, and alliteration. For each technique, it gives a brief definition and an excerpt from a work of literature that demonstrates that particular figurative language. The purpose is to familiarize the reader with common literary devices used to convey ideas or descriptions in non-literal ways.

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    21 CENTURY LITERATURE
    FROM THE PHILIPPINES &
    THE WORLD
    GLADYS JOY VALERIO-VINTERES,MBA
    SHS, Master Teacher I
    Contextual Reading
    Approaches
    Figurative Language
    Figures of Speech / Figurative Definition Sample Text
    Language
    Simile Indirect comparison of two things using “Then she burst into view, a girl lovely
    “like” or “as”. as morning and just as fair…”
    (Waywaya, F. Sionil Jose)
    Metaphor Direct comparison between two objects “everything that exists, aromas, light,
    metals were little boats that sail toward
    the isles of yours that wait for me…”
    (If You Forget Me, Pablo Neruda)
    Personification Attribution of human qualities to a “Because I could not stop for Death, He
    thing kindly stopped for me; The carriage
    held but just ourselves and Immorality”.

    (Because I Could Not Stop For Death,


    Emily Dickinson)
    onomatopoeia Use of words that mimic sounds “Boy, I rang that doorbell fast when I
    got to old Spencer’s house”.

    (The Catcher in The Rye, J.D. Salinger)


    Hyperbole exaggeration “Well now, one winter it was so called
    that all the geese flew backward and all
    the fish moved south, and even the
    snow turned blue. Late at night, it got
    so frigid that all spoken words froze
    solid afore they could be heard. People
    had to wait until sunup to find out what
    folks were talking about the night
    before.

    (Babe, the Blue Ox, retold by


    S.E.Schlosser)
    Allusion Use of person, place, or thing as “The morning wind forever blows; the
    reference poem of creation is uninterrupted, but
    few are the ears that hear it. Olympus
    is but the outside of the earth
    everywhere”.

    (Walden, Henry David Thoreau)


    Alliteration Repetition of the first consonant of “leap up, like that, like that, and land so
    neighboring words lightly”

    (Home Burial, Robert Frost)

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