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I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
a. define Hyperbole; and
b. identify the hyperbole used in the sentence.
II. Content
a. Lesson: Figures of Speech: Hyperbole
b. Reference/s: http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/writinghyperbole.php
and
http://study.com/academy/lesson/figure-ofspeechdefinition-types-examples.html
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III. Procedure
A. Activities
Motivation
The teacher:
presents a poem entitled As I Walked One
Evening by W.H Auden which shows expressions
of hyperbole and asks the students to read the poem
together.
gives follow-up questions:
1. What can you say with the poem?
2. What do you think are the emotions
conveyed
by the poem?
3. What do you think is the message of the
poem?
Activity
The teacher:
1
asks the students to get a 2
Instructions: Choose the letter with the correct word that makes the
following sentences a hyperbole. Write the letter of the
answer on the space before the number.
best
V. Assignment
1. Define the following:
a. Paradox
b. Irony
2. Give at least five (5) examples and use them in a sentence.
The Poem
As I Walked One Evening by W.H Auden
Ill love you, dear, Ill love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
Ill love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry.
sentences
c. Turtle
a. Normal child
b. Jet
_____ 2. "Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the _____.
a. House
b. Barn c. World
b. Push c. By tripping me
a. Bunch of ounces
a. Elephant
b. Chair
b. Pound
c. Ton
c. Actor
b. Horse
b. Hills
c. Grandpa
_____ 8. I'm really busy, I am doing like _________ things at the same time.
a. Twenty
b. Ten Million
c. Ninety
a. My wife
b. A freight train
c. My
a. A ton
b. 70 pounds
c. 100