Figurative Language in Hip Hop

"Some issues need to be addressed like envelopes"

- Andre 3000

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"God's seamstress tailor-fited my pain"

- 50 Cent

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"Yo, if rap gets jealous, words that were admitted

I used to be a public enemy, don't forget it."

-K'naan

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"I put food on the table, fed the whole city."

- Rick Ross

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"Cuz its cool when ya cause a cozy conditionin'

Which we create, cuz thats our mission"

- Snoop Dog

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Just think of all the people that you knew in the past

that passed on, they in heaven, found peace at last."

- Tupac Shakur

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Free Verse

• Repetition

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"My function is to make much'n lay back munchin."

- Jay-Z

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Repetition

• Assonance

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

“I’m brainless, which means I’m headless, like Ichabod Crane is…”

- Lupe Fiasco

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Internal Rhyme

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9