Figurative language 20

Remember those walls I built / Well, baby, they're tumbling down / And they didn't even put up a fight / They didn't even make a sound —“Halo,” Beyonce

• Imagery

• Setting

• Metaphor

• Pun

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

If this town / Is just an apple / Then let me take a bite —“Human Nature,” Michael Jackson

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“What beautiful blossoms we have this year. But look, this one’s late. I’ll bet that when it blooms it will be the most beautiful of all.” —from Mulan

• Allusion

• Foreshadowing

• Metaphor

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

"Who let the dogs out?

Woof, woof, woof, woof!"

"Who Let the Dogs Out"

by The Baha Men

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

You know time flies, only yesterday was the time of our lives, bound by the surprise of our glory days, I hate to turn up out of the blue.

• Pun

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"No I'm standing alone in a crowded room."

-Taylor Swift

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"Do you believe that you can walk on water?" (Walk on Water by Thirty Seconds to Mars)

• Irony

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Conflict

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Whip, whip Run me like a racehorse Pull me like a ripcord" ("Whatever It Takes" by Imagine Dragons)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

• Pun

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Irony

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CCSS.L.8.5A

• Pun

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.8.5A