figures of speech training | ESL& ELT activities

ESL & ELT Activities: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole 

Alliteration: Alliteration is a term to describe a literary device in which a series of words begin with the same consonant sound.

Metaphor: A metaphor is a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar.

Simile: A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things. The simile is usually in a phrase that begins with the words “as” or “like.”

Personification: Personification, a common literary tool, is a type of metaphor that comes when you relate the qualities of a person to something that isn’t human or that isn’t even alive, such as nature or non-living things.

Imagery: Imagery is language used by poets, novelists, and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader. Imagery includes figurative and metaphorical language to improve the reader’s experience through their senses.

0:00 Types of figure of speech
0:25 Simile
0:51 Metaphor
1:08 Personification
1:38 Apostrophe
1:52 Hyperbole
2:09 Antithesis
2:25 Onomatopoeia
2:43 Alliteration
2:58 Repetition
3:16 Tautology
3:36 Inversion
3:49 Test