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Activity Sheet in English 6 Quarter 1 Week 1

The document is an activity sheet about figures of speech including hyperbole, irony, simile, metaphor, and personification. It provides examples and definitions of each figure of speech, then presents 3 activities for students to identify examples of each from sentences and short passages, underline or circle instances of the figures of speech, and generate new examples modifying given similes as metaphors or personifying inanimate objects.

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Activity Sheet in English 6 Quarter 1 Week 1

The document is an activity sheet about figures of speech including hyperbole, irony, simile, metaphor, and personification. It provides examples and definitions of each figure of speech, then presents 3 activities for students to identify examples of each from sentences and short passages, underline or circle instances of the figures of speech, and generate new examples modifying given similes as metaphors or personifying inanimate objects.

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Activity Sheet in English 6 Quarter 1 Week 1

Figures of Speech (Hyperbole and Irony)

Carefully read the discussion part or the What Is It part. Then accomplish the activities
indicated in the activity sheet. Write your answers on a clean piece of paper.

What Is It:
Figurative language or figures of speech are ways of expressing ideas by using symbols,
figures or likeliness. It does not tell directly what a person has in mind.
Hyperbole is a figure of speech that expresses overstatement and exaggeration of a
particular condition. It is also called hyperbolic expression.
Examples: My world turned upside down.
My heart is bleeding with sadness.
I cried a river.
Irony is a figure of speech that expresses the contrary or opposite of what should one really
think especially in order to be funny. It is also called ironic statement.
Examples: The teacher fails the test.
The shoemaker’s children have no shoes.
The doctor died of pneumonia.

Activity 1: Read each sentence below. If the sentence contains a hyperbole, write
“hyperbole” and if it does not have one, write “none” in your paper.

1) I’m so hungry I could eat a whole elephant!


2) May is the nicest month of the year.
3) Her brightly colored dress hurt his eyes.
4) Larry was such a big baby that this parents had to use bed sheets for diapers.
5) I ate all of my salad for lunch.
6) As I approached the horse, it seemed larger than it had in the pasture.
7) The roof rose up and down to the rhythm of the loud music.
8) We thought the apple pie was the best kind of dessert for the party.
9) The dog was so dirty that it had a tomato plant growing on its back.
10) There were a million replies that popped into her head

Activity 2: Tell whether the statement is hyperbole or irony.


1. There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service.
2. My eyes widened at the sight of the mile-high ice cream cones we were having for
dessert.
3. Her brain is the size of a pea.
4. The homeless survived in their cardboard palace.
5. I’m starving! I can devour hundred tons of sandwiches and French fries any time.

Activity 3: Read and understand the short selection. Look and underline the hyperbolic
sentences and circle the ironic sentences.

Tina broke her heart when she received the sad news late in the evening. Her
grandmother passed away. “How come she died so soon when she is still 95 years old”, she
wondered. Tina was crying a river. If only she could keep her pain and sadness inside a jar
and let it sink underwater. Life is really fair for taking her beloved grandmother away. How
she wished her grandmother was given a thousand years to live.
Activity Sheet in English 6 Quarter 1 Week 1
Figures of Speech (Simile, Metaphor and Personification)

What Is It:
Figurative language or figures of speech are ways of expressing ideas by using symbols,
figures or likeliness. It does not tell directly what a person has in mind.
Simile is a figure of speech which is a comparison of two unlike objects using the words like
or as. Example: The farmer is as strong as the typhoon.
Metaphor is also a comparison of two unlike objects without using the words like or as.
Example: His heart is a gem. The heart is compared to a gem.
Personification is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to places, objects, animals, or
ideas or anything that is inanimate. Example: The moon woke up from its sleep.

Activity 1: Tell whether the statement is simile, metaphor or personification.


1. The notes were as noisy as the hungry birds in a cage.
2. The adults quarreled like children.
3. Johann Sebastian Bach became an angel to the notes.
4. Music is the language of the soul.
5. The turtle bears his shell.
6. The sun hides behind the clouds.
Activity 2: Make a metaphor from the following examples of simile.
Example: The princess is as lovely as the queen.
Answer: The princess is a lovely queen.

1. You are as pretty as a doll.


2. The father is like a rock.
3. A friend is like a gold.
4. When I am tired, I am as lazy as a dog.
5. Riding in a car with my brother is like a roller coaster.

Activity 3: Personify the following inanimate objects.


Example: waves
Answer: The waves kick me off the shore.

1. tree
2. moon
3. wind
4. flowers
5. house

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