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.