Songs Containing Figures of Speech from Boys/Girls #

Heartless by Kanye West. 'How could you be so cold as the winter wind when it breezes.’


Like a Prayer by Madonna ‘Its like a dream, no end and no beginning.’

"The sun's on my side, take me for a ride," in Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful of Sunshine"

A year without rain by Selena Gomez 'A day without you is like a year without rain.'

Back to black ‘Life is a like a pie’ by Amy Whinehouse

Hey diddle diddle ‘The cow jumped over the moon’ by Mother Goose.

The wind cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix ‘Footprints dressed in red’

Like a Virgin by Madonna or ‘Hungry like the Wolf’

Poetry Experience Paragraph

I am very excited about studying poetry, because I think it is very interesting and soothing. I think it expresses a lot of emotion and it is very calming. It is also very interesting to read and discuss. I think it would be a lot of fun for the class, and it would interesting to hear everyone’s ideas and opinions about the different types of poems and styles of poetry they are out there. It would also be great for us to learn about different poems and poets. I think it is very important for us to study poetry and learn about the poets or poetry that made or caused an impact in today’s literature. It is important, because I think we should know why certain poems or poets are famous.That is my personal input in studying poetry!

Dream House Paragraph with Imagery

I am not exactly sure what my dream house would be like, but I would want it to be warm and welcoming to my guest or visitors. I always wanted a Victorian style home but I am not sure anymore. I want a big two story house with plenty of rooms so when my friends come from far away places they can always stay in a guest room. I want it to be colorful and bright, but it should all match as well. I want it to smell fresh like clean linens, no that’s actually kind of boring! I would want it to smell like colorful beautiful flowers of all sorts and varieties. I would want the outside of my house to seem friendly and charming. I would want a big yard so I can have little or big get together’s with friends. That’s what my dream house would be like.

Similes + Metaphors + Personification = Figurative Language

Metaphors
1. Love these days is very plain.
2. Hate hits people in the face.
3. Life has meaning.
4. Friendships last a lifetime.

Similes
1. Community meetings are as dull as a 100 year old blade.
2. Passes are as great as a million dollars.
3. When you enter the gym it is as hot as the sun.
4. My house is like a nightmare.

Personification
1. The moons face is beautiful tonight.
2. The purple flower danced in the breeze.
3. The phone cried out for five minutes.
4. The car strolled down the street with a glow.

"Ex- Basketball Player " Paragraph

School athletics are not very important to me, because I would much rather concentrate in school academics. School athletics do not help much to prepare young people for future life experiences. The only thing I think you get from athletics that might help is endurance. Other than that I think that athletics will not prepare you for life. In my opinion athletics have really nothing to do with life as you get older. How do athletics prepare you for life? Unless you are really good and you get scholarships and things similar to that and such. Other than that I do not really see what types of achievements you can make.

SPA Poem

My life at SPA is a dull as an over used blade.
It is as appalling as a two star movie.
It does not glide smoothly like Chap Stick on a humans lips.
It is very rough like pumices stone.
I have learned to deal with this like a sled dog forced to run another race!

"I am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Paragraph

The emotion that the poem, "I am Offering This Poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca, creates is a somewhat of a warming emotion. He offers this poem as a gift to the reader making them feel cared about by saying “I love you”, or it can also make the reader feel like he is there or is known by the reader. He explains to the readers how he cannot give material things, but he instead offers this poem as a gift. That is the type of emotion he creates with this poem.

"Heart! We will forget him!" Paragraph

The writer of “Heart! We will forget him!" talks to her heart as if she is preaching to another person and there could be many reasons why she does so. One of the reasons maybe is that it’s been proven that the more you say things to yourself the more likely it is for you to do them or to convince yourself that it’s true. So by doing so the author may have been convinced or trying to convince herself that she is not heartbroken or will get over it. In a way the author was trying to engrave in her mind and heart that she is not heartbroken and I she is then she will get over it pain free.

Paragraph to Persuade You to Read My Poem

The poem that my partner and I are teaching is “Same Song” by Pat Mora. People should read this poem because, it’s a good poem that teaches about, what many teens and youth are going through right now. Many youth members are not fulfilled with their appearance. They are not satisfied with who they are. They are not pleased, not the smallest amount, by the person they see in the mirror. This brings us to this poem. This poem represents not one but two teenagers of both genders who look in the mirror each day and see not the person that they were expecting to come in contact with. Many teens face this struggle everyday it’s not unusual but it’s also not okay. This poem will show people including youth that they are not the only ones feeling this way.