12/8/2014
Do Now What is the mood in the song
below? What literary devices does the author use to create that mood?
And she is yelling at a bridesmaid Somewhere back inside a room Wearing a gown shaped like a pastry.
And the organ starts to play A song that sounds like a death march.
She floats down the aisle Like a pageant queen.
Agenda and Objective
Agenda Do Now
Literary devices and Figurative Language Review
Figurative Language in songs
Partner Work
Exit
Objective Students will closely read
popular songs in order to assess how the use of literary devices and figurative language (like simile and metaphor) impacts our emotions (mood!).
Literary devices and Figurative
language
Literary Device Any method an
author uses to convey a message (figurative language, repetition, etc.)
Different from literary elements like plot, setting, theme and character.
Alliteration Repetition of the first
consonant sound in a series of words.
Depending on what your mouth does, it can slow you down (s, m, w, sounds) or hurt your throat (hard k sounds)
“… Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be” ~ The Beatles
Chivalrous Sean
Anaphora Repetition of the same WORD
or PHRASE at the beginning of a line.
Provides emphasis and catches your attention.
“It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me and I’m feeling good” ~ Michael Buble (among others)
Figurative language
SHOW it, don’t TELL it.
Simile Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Examples
“You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed, sing like a bird
Dizzy in my head, spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night”
~ Uncle Kracker, “Smile”
"Steady as a preacher
Free as a weed”
~ Lady Antebellum, “American Honey”
MetaphorTwo things are compared without using “like” or “as.”
Examples
“That you were Romeo
You were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said
Stay away from Juliet”
~ Taylor Swift, “Love Story”
“You could be a sweet dream
Or a beautiful nightmare”
~ Beyonce, “Sweet Dream”
PersonificationGiving human traits to objects or ideas.
Examples
“Our hearts are hungry
For a food that won’t come”
~ Kris Allen, “Live Like We’re Dying”
“I just saw Hailey’s comet
She waved and said,
‘Why are you always
running in place?”
~ Shinedown “Second Chance”
HyperboleExaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.
Examples
“You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep”
~ Owl City, “Fireflies”
OnomatopoeiaA word that “makes” a sound
“Clang, clang, clang went the trolley
Ding, ding, ding went the bell
Zing, zing, zing went my heart strings
For the moment I saw her I fell
Chug, chug, chug went the motor
Thump, thump, thump went the brake
Thump, thump, thump went my heart strings
When she smiled I could feel the car shake” ~ Meet Me IN St. Louis
IdiomA saying that isn’t meant to be taken literally.
Doesn’t “mean” what it says
A piece of cakeBreak a Leg
“Get up off your high horse” ~ Jay-Z, “Holy Grail”
“I hate to turn up Out of the blue uninvited”
~ Adele, “Someone Like You”
OxymoronWhen two words are put together that
contradict each other. “Opposites”
Jumbo Shrimp
Pretty Ugly
Alone Together
Civil War
Freezer Burn
Allusiona figure of speech that makes a
reference to a place, person, or something that happened.
“I think I met him some time before, in a different life of where I record. I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve but my vision ends with an apple on the tree…” Love by Nicki Minaj
A Thousand Miles by
Vanessa Carlton
First example…
Textual evidence (lines and line numbers from the song!)
What kind of literary device?
How does the literary device affect the mood? Why?
"Cause you know I'd walkA thousand milesIf I could just see you Tonight"
Hyperbole
The mood is nostalgic and hopeful. The line “It's always times like theseWhen I think of you” makes it seem as though she is reminiscing on her old romance and hopeful that the relationship can continue.
Partner work!
Work with your partner on Eminem’s “Monster” Read through the song,
paying close attention to different types of figurative language.
Fill out the organizer below.