CNFF

• Allusion


  Comparison that involves making references to a famous fictional or historical figure, event or idea
• Allusion


  • Only five years old, this child prodigy, this Mozart has composed at least a dozen short piano pieces and performed in the Philippine Musical Center
• Apostrophe


  Addressing a person who is either dead or absent when the utterance is made
• Apostrophe


  • Mabini, Bonifacio, Rizal, let your guiding spirits influence our leaders in this time of great crisis!
• Hyperbole


  Use of exaggeration to emphasize an idea
• Hyperbole


  • I was so hungry I could eat up a hundred cups of rice
• Metaphor


  More direct than simile
• Metaphor


  • When he gets furious, Mr. Mayamot is one hungry tiger
• Metonymy


  Substitution of a word/phrase for an idea to which it is closely related (say, an author for his/her works)
• Metonymy


  • I cannot help crying when I read Carlos Bulosan (a Filipino expatriate writer)
• Parallelism


  Use of same grammatical structure
• Parallelism


  • Peace can only be achieved through dedication, peace can only be achieved through diligence, peace can only be achieved through fidelity to the rule of law
• Personification


  Using human attributes in describing nonhuman or inanimate objects
• Personification


  • The country wants us to perform our civic duties
• Rhetorical question


  A question that is not meant to be answered because the answer is obvious
• Rhetorical question


  • Has information technology advanced slowly or by leaps and bounds?
• Simile


  Indirect comparison of ideas using "like" or "As"
• Simile


  • Mr. Mayamot is like a hungry tiger when he gets furious
• Synecdoche


  The "Part" to represent a "Whole"
• Synecdoche


  • Ka Herming was the brains and the heart of the movement during those dark days of the dictatorship