THE LANGUAGE OF CREATIVE

WRITING
FIGURES OF SPEECH
 FIGURES OF SPEECH

Are literary devices that enrich the

message or theme that writer wishes to
convey to It’s readers.
 SIMILE
It is used for comparison of two essentially unlike
things, often in a phrase. It is introduced by like or
as, and is a more subtle way of comparing two
objects than metaphor, since it only points out the
likeness of the two things being compared.

Examples:
You are like a lily in bloom.
My love for you is as deep as the ocean.
 METAPHOR
Is the use of words or phrase that ordinarily
designates one thing as that of another, thus making
an implicit ang direct comparison. As Opposed to
simile, metaphor directly compares two things as if
they are the same, without using helping words.

Examples:
My life became a sea of troubles the day I met you.
All the world’s a stage and we, the actors of the play
called life.
 PERSONIFICATION
Endows human qualities to inanimate objects or
abstract ideas. These are often represented as
processing as possessing human form.

EXAMPLES:
Hunger sat shivering on the road.
Flowers danced about the lawn, swaying the
wind.
 HYPERBOLE
More commonly known as extreme exaggeration.
It is often used to give extreme emphasis or to show
extreme effect to a statement. However, these
statemens are often greatly exaggeration that they
are impossible to be true.

EXAMPLES:
I could sleep for a year!
I have cried a bucket of tears for the boy who broke
my heart.
 ONOMATOPOEIA
is know as a sound word. It employs the use of words
that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or
actions they refer to.

EXAMPLES:
The buzzing of the bees bothered my sister as they
ate their lunch
The splashing of water indicate that there were fish
in the pond.
 APOSTROPHE
Directly addressing an absent/imaginary person
or a personified abstraction, as a living entity. It
is used as a digression in the course of a speech
or a composition.

EXAMPLES:
Oh, my God!
Fate, why have you been so cruel to me?
METONYMY
Replaces one word or phrase for another, usually as
a symbol with which it is closely associated.

EXAMPLES:
Symbol Meaning
white dove ------ Peace Let the white dove fly.
(Let there be peace.)
Laurel leaves -- Championship The team brought
home
the laurel leaves.
(The team was declared
 OXYMORON
Uses contradictor terms which are combine to
make meaning. To be able to understand the
passage that employs this figure of speech, the
entire statement must be read.

EXAMPLES:
There was deafening silence in the room when
he entered.
He was indeed mournful optimist.
 IRONY
Is an expression which the opposite of what is
meant.

EXAMPLE:
A person who hates macaroni, yet says “I really
love macaroni”
A lady who says, “Good rats! You have
destroyed my best gown.
 PARADOX
A figure of speech which contradicts itself in the
same sentence.

EXAMPLE:
“War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is
slavery. From George
Orwell’s. “1984”
 SYNECDOCHE
Is present when a particular idea is expressed
through the following ways:
a. A part is used for the whole (as hand for a bride)
b. The whole is used for a part (as the law for police
officer
c. The specific is used for the general (as cutthroat
for assassin)
d. The general is used for the specific (as thief for
pickpocket)
e. The materials is used for the thing made from it
(as steel for swords.)
 EXAMPLES:

He asked her hand for marriage.

The law brought the thief into prison.

Keep away from that cutthroat!

The wondrous work of steel was offered to the

prince.
 UNDERSTATEMENT
An expression wherein the thing described is
made to appear unimportant.

EXAMPLES:
We are not rich. We only have s resort in
Zambales and a vacation house in Baguio.
Don’t worry about me, this cancer is noting.
 ANTHITHESIS
A contradiction thet pits two ideas against each
other in a balanced way.

EXAMPLE:
Neil Armstrong said when he stepped in moon,
This is one small step for man, ne giant leap of
mankind.”
 SOUND DEVICES
Sound devices help a lot in adding
flavor to literary compositions,
especially in poems.
 RHYMING WORDS
a. Rhyming words add beauty to a poem
Forward, the Bridgade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not through the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
b. It also adds rhythm to the line of the poem.
It was many and many a year ago
In a kingdom by the sea.
 ALLITERATION:
Is the repetition of the same sound of the same
kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in
stressed syllables.

Pretty woman wonder where my secrets lies’

I’m not cute or built a fashion model’s size.
But when I start to tell them,
They think I’m telling lies.
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 ASSONANCE
the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong
which are near enough to each other for the sound to
be describable.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
The right choice of work s greatly contributes to the
development of a composition.
A good use of diction is said to be achieved when the
following conditions are met by the author and
writer:

a. the right words were chosen for what is written

about
b. the words chosen are appropriate for the theme
and tone of the composition
c. the words used can be easily understood by the
readers