Literary terms

"Beauty and the Beast": Cogsworth - "And, as I always say, 'If it's not Baroque, don't fix it!'"

• Pun

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.8.5A

"The Lion King":

Simba: "Hakuna Matata?"

Pumbaa: "Yeah, it's our motto."

Simba: "What's a motto?"

Timon: "Nothing! What's a motto with you?"

• Pun

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.8.5A

"Smells like teen spirit"

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Welcome to the Hotel California

Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)

Such a lovely face

They livin’ it up at the Hotel California

What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)

• Metaphor

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more, just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles to fall down at your door."

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Hurts So Good" - John Mellencamp

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"And now that I'm without your kisses
I'll be needing stitches."

• Metaphor
• allusion
• simile
• imagery

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Now I'm gonna reap what I sow
I'm left seeing red on my own."
Is an example of...

• idiom
• cliche
• repetition
• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Remember when we couldn't take the heat
I walked out, I said, I'm setting you free
But the monsters turned out to be just trees
When the sun came up
You were looking at me."
Is an example of...

• cliche
• alliteration
• simile
• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"They wanna say it's a war outside, bomb in the street
Gun in the hood, mob of police"
~
Kendrick Lamar, "I"

• Their is no figurative language in these lines.
• The simile in these lines compares the street to an explosive device.
• The personification in these lines suggests that a gun is living in a neighborhood.
• The hyperbole in these lines conveys the sense of chaos, urgency, and level of danger in the singer's neighborhood.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4