Figurative Language Notes

^{Figurative Language Notes and Poetic Devices}

​Use this presentation to fill in the blanks on your notes. The underlined words on the screen are what is missing from your notes.

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On the songs, underline the examples and answer any questions.

Figurative Language

Figurative language is language that one must figure out. 

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Figurative language is the opposite of literal language, where the words convey meaning exactly as defined. In figurative language the reader must determine the writer’s intended meaning, as the words by themselves do not express it clearly.  The listener or reader must “figure” out what is meant.^

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Figurative Language Figurative language is language. The listener or reader must “figure” out what is meant.

• True

• False

Similes are comparisons between

two unlike things using the word 

like or as.

Multiple Choice

What does the following simile mean?

As the girl was humiliated, her cheeks turned as red as an apple.

• She was embarrassed.

• She was craving an apple.

• She was feverish.

Multiple Choice

Read the following sentence.

The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue.

What is the simile

• his tongue

• like a bad taste on his tongue.

• the truth

Multiple Choice

True or False: The two things that are being compared in a simile MUST be completely different.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or false:

Not every sentence that contains like or as is a simile.

• True

• False

​Read the lyrics to the song, "Mean" by Taylor Swift.

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What is ONE example of a simile from the song?​

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Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a simile from the song?

• like knives, and swords and weapons

• like I'm nothin'

• calling me out when I'm wounded.

Open Ended

In the simile below, what two things are being compared?

" You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use agaist me..."

_____________ is being compared to ______________

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 is a comparison between two different things without using the word like or as. “as.” 

​Read the lyrics from "I'm already there

by "Lonestar."

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Underline all the metaphors on your notes.

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Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a metaphor from the song?

• "I'm the beat in your heart."

• "I'm the moonlight shining down."

• "I'm this whisper in the wind."

• All of these are

  Metaphors.

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An exaggeration that

cannot

possibly be true

​ Read the following lyrics "One Thing," by One Direction.

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Underline some examples of hyperbole in the song lyrics here.?​

Multiple Choice

What is an example of a hyperbole in this song?

• A.)

  "You keep making me weak...frozen...can't breathe."

• B.)

  " You got that one thing."

• C.)

  "Cause I'm dying to make you see."

• A and C are BOTH hyperbole.

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 giving human qualities

to nonhuman things

Multiple Choice

True or False: the human quality must be completely unique to humans.

• True

• False

​Read the lyrics to "The Wind Cries Mary" by Jimi Hendrix.

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Underline any examples of personification in the song.

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Open Ended

Write one example of personification in the song "Wind Cries Mary"

​ a group of words whose collective

meaning is quite different than

their individual, literal meaning 

​Idioms are figurative expressions used so often that they become part of the language.

​Read the lyrics to Adele's song,

"Rolling in the Deep."

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Can you see any idioms?​

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Multiple Choice

Which one is an example of an idiom from the song?

• "..throw your soul through every open door."

• "count your blessings."

• Into treasured gold.

​A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts.

Multiple Choice

What is the allusion in the song, "Someday We'll Know" by New Radicals?

• "If love can move a mountain"

• " If I wasn't meant for you."

• " Why Sampson loved Delilah"

​When situations or words contradict,

or go against, our expectations. 

​Poetic Devices (Sound Devices)

These next 3 are really sound devices. ​

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​A word that imitates

the sound it represents.

​Underline the onomatopoeia in the

lyrics.​

Multiple Choice

Which one of these is an example of an onomatopoeia in this song?

• hillbilly

• twang

• guitar strings

​the repetition of the same

initial

consonant sound in a series

of words.

Multiple Choice

What consonant sound is repeated? (What's the alliteration in this song?)

• the "m" sound

• the "s" sound

• the "i" sound

​ It is intentionally repeating words, sounds, phrases, or lines in order to emphasize a point or to show a certain feeling.  

Multiple Choice

In Taylor Swift's song, "Shake it Off," what word is repeated in repetition to create an effect?

• baby

• shake

• haters