Spoken Word Figurative Language

This excerpt from Alex Dang's spoken word poem (from yesterday) is an example of what:

Twelve, I didn't come out the way they expected.

Twelve, I didn't come out the way they expected.

Twelve, I didn't come out the way they expected.

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Internal Rhyme

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

This example, from Marshall Jones' poem "Touchscreen," (that we watched earlier this week) is an example of what:

"I can't hear the sound of mother nature speaking over all this tweeting"

• Symbol

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

This example, from Marshall Jones' poem "Touchscreen," (that we watched earlier this week) is an example of what:

"I face Facebook

more than books face me

hoping to

book face-to-faces"

• Simile

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• End Rhyme

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

This example, from Denice Frohman's spoken word poem "Accents" (we watched yesterday in class), is an example of what:

"my mom holds her accent like a shotgun"

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

This example, from Denice Frohman's spoken word poem "Accents" (we watched yesterday in class), is an example of what:

"her accent is a stubborn compass

always pointing her

towards home."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

This example, from Denice Frohman's spoken word poem "Accents" (we watched yesterday in class), is an example of what:

"her voice is one size better fit all

and you best not tell her to hush,

she waited too many years for her voice to arrive

to be told it needed house keeping."

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

This example from Marshall "Soulful" Jones' poem "Touchscreen" is an example of what:

"from the Garden of Eden, to the branches of Macintosh, apple picking has always come at a great cost"

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

This example from Alex Dang's poem "Times I've Been Mistaken for a Girl" is an example of what:

"But this lion’s mane became and remained"

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Imagery

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

This excerpt from Marshall "Soulful" Jones' poem "Touchscreen" is an example of what:

"the way we connect to disconnect

power on but we are powerless

they got us love drugged

Like e-pills

so we E*TRADE

email

e-motion

like e-commerce"

• Imagery

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

This excerpt from Denice Frohman's poem "Accents" is an example of what:

"for the English language,

it got too much hip

too much bone

too much conga

too much cuatro

to two step

got too many piano keys

in between her teeth,

it got too much clave

too much hand clap

got too much salsa to sit still"

• End Rhyme

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5