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10/28
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BELLWORK 10/28
Define the following terms:
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Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
IMAGERY
 Any
description using one of the five
senses (sight, smell, taste, touch,
sound).
The sand was scratchy and dry, and smelled of sun
and salt; the damp tan grains glistened in the sun.
I made the mistake of licking my sandcastle,
thinking it would taste like brown sugar. It didn’t.
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE
Tools
poets
use to paint
a picture
with words
akaImagery
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
 Words
or
phrases that
depart from
everyday literal
language for the
sake of:
1) Comparison
2) Emphasis
3) Clarity,
4) Freshness.
 Used
well,
figurative
language will:
1) Enhance your
fiction
2) Get an image
or point across
in a creative
way
SIMILE
 Makes a comparison
between two
otherwise unalike
objects or ideas by
using "like" or "as.”
 Similes allow an
author to emphasize a
certain characteristic
of an object or idea in
a creative manner
 The
fog curled
over the
tombstones like
locks of
unkempt hair
hanging in my
face.
SIMILE EXAMPLES
 My face looks like a
wedding-cake left out in
the rain.
 She dealt with moral
problems as a cleaver
deals with meat.
 A sickly light, like
yellow tinfoil, was
slanting over the high
walls into the jail yard.
 My father grumbles
like a bear in the
mornings.
Similes in Songs:
“You know a dream is
like a river-ever
changing as it
flows…”
Garth Brooks The
River
“Do you ever feel, feel
so paper thin like a
house of cards?”
Katy Perry Firework
METAPHOR
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A statement that says
one thing is something
else, but literally, it is
not.
Like a simile, but does
not use like/as
A metaphor can uncover
new and intriguing
qualities of the original
thing that we may not
normally notice or even
consider important.
 As
she dreamed
about winning
her eyes became
stars twinkling
with
possibilities.
METAPHOR EXAMPLES
 The streets were a
furnace, the sun an
executioner.
 Love is a lemon -
either bitter of sweet
 Memory is a crazy
woman that hoards
colored rags and
throws away food.
 Life is a game played
on us while we are
playing other games.
Metaphors in Songs:
“I know someday you'll
have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a
sun in somebody
else's sky, but why
why, why can't it be,
why can't it be mine?
Pearl Jam Black
“We’re just two lost
souls swimming in a
fish bowl.”
Pink Floyd Wish You
Were Here
PERSONIFICATION
A
figure of speech
where animals,
ideas or inanimate
objects are given
human
characteristics.
 Most
often used in
poetry and song
lyrics to achieve
more interesting
and vivid images
 The
climbing rope
snickered and
mocked my feeble
efforts, but I
just laughed
along.
PERSONIFICATION
EXAMPLES
 Pink is what red looks
like when it kicks off its
shoes and lets its hair
down.
 The dishes danced on
the shelves during the
earthquake.
 The flowers begged for
water.
 The sun played hide and
seek with the clouds.
Personification in
Songs:
"Time grabs you by
the wrist, directs
you where to go.“
-Green Day Good
Riddance
“Horror looks you
right between the
eyes.”
Michael Jackson
Thriller
“Black hole Sun, won’t
you come, and wash
away the pain?”
PUN
 A play on words
that suggests two or
more meanings
 Exploits multiple
meanings of words, or
of similar-sounding
words, for an
intended humorous or
rhetorical effect.
 To be understood,
puns require a large
vocabulary.
PUN EXAMPLES
 A bicycle can’t stand on
its own because its twotired.
 If you don’t pay your
exorcist, you get
repossessed.
 A boiled egg in the
morning is hard to beat.
 When a clock is hungry
it goes back four
seconds.

Two antennas met on a
roof, fell in love and got
married. The ceremony
wasn't much, but the
reception was brilliant!
Puns in Songs:
Counting both feet, I
have ten toes,
They're not lady
toes, they're men
toes.
And I keep them as
mementoes,
For I love them
tenderly...
-Me by Alan Sherman
HYPERBOLE
 A grossly
exaggerated
description or
statement.
 Used for emphasis or
vivid descriptions.
 Used to increase the
effect of a
description, whether
it is metaphoric or
comic.
HYPERBOLE EXAMPLES
 My
sister uses so much
makeup that she broke
the chisel trying to get
it off last night.
 My
brother is so dimwitted that he sat on
the TV and watched the
couch.
 Our
Math teacher is so
old, she edited the
Bible.
 Your
sister is so skinny,
she has to run around in
the shower to get wet.
Hyperboles in Songs:
“…..I told the World
one day I would pay
it back.”
I Need a Doctor
Eminem
“I’ve been wondering
in the desert for a
thousand days.”
A Year Without Rain
Selena Gomez
OXYMORON
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Two words of
opposing meanings are
used together to
express two
contrasting qualities
in one concept.
However, the
incompatible word
pairing conveys a
truth or a dramatic
result.
OXYMORON EXAMPLES
Same difference
 Living dead
 Always remember
you're unique...just
like everyone else!
 Disgustingly delicious
 I am busy doing
nothing.
 No one goes to that
restaurant anymore—
it’s always too
crowded.

Oxymoron in
Songs:
“…But my words, like
silent raindrops
fell and echoed in
the wells of
silence.”
The Sound of
Silence Simon &
Garfunkel
SYMBOLISM
The use of one object
or action (a symbol)
to represent or
suggest something
else, either by
association or
resemblance.
 In writing, symbolism
is the use of a word, a
phrase, or a
description, which
represents a deeper
meaning than the
words themselves.
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SYMBOLISM EXAMPLES
 The olive as a symbol of
peace dates back to at
least to the 5th century
BC
 The lion, the king of
beasts, has been used
to represent dominion,
bravery, ferocity, power
and the sun
 Fire, flames, hot
temperatures and heat
–Symbols referring to
damnation
 The letter “A” in The
Scarlet Letter refers
to Adultery
Symbolism in Songs:
It's not me you're
dying for
Now she's feeling
more alone
Then she ever has
before
She's a brick and
I'm drowning slowly
off the coast and
I'm headed nowhere
Ben Folds Five Brick
ONOMATOPOEIA
 Words
(such as hiss
or murmur) that
imitate the sounds
associated with the
objects or actions
they refer to.

Used to convey and
emphasize unusual and
vivid images!
ONOMATOPOEIA EXAMPLES
 Flags flutter and flap

"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz,
oh what a relief it is."
(slogan of Alka
Seltzer, U.S.)
 Screech, splash,
squish, squeak
 While I nodded,
nearly napping,
suddenly there came a
tapping,
As of someone gently
rapping, rapping at my
chamber door.
Onomatopoeia in
Songs:
“I get a feeling in my heart
that I can't describe
It's sort of lub, dub, lub,
dub
A sound in my head that I
can't describe
It's sort of zoom, zip,
hiccup, drip
Ding, dong, crunch,
crack, bark, meow,
whinnie, quack!”
Todd Rundgren Onomatopoeia
“Mmm bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop”
Hanson MMMBop
ALLITERATION
 A pattern of sounds
that includes the
repetition of consonant
sounds.
 The repetition can be
located at the beginning
of successive words or
inside the words.
 Use to call attention to
a phrase and fix it into
the reader's mind; thus,
it is useful for
emphasis.
One picture puzzle
piece lyin' on the
sidewalk…
It might be a small tuft
of hair on the big
bouncy belly of Bobo
the Bear.
It might be a bit of the
cloak of the Wicked
Witch of the West
as she melted to
smoke…
-Picture Puzzle Piece by
Shel Silverstein
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ALLITERATION EXAMPLES
 Once upon a midnight
dreary while I
pondered weak and
weary…
 Tell the teacher to
teach you alliteration.
 Round and round she
ran until she realized
she was running round
and round.
Alliteration in
Songs:
"I'm a lyrical lyricist
flowing lyrics out of
my larynx“
Biggie Smalls Dolly
My Baby
“Better be a better
boy before you
bother betting that
you'll bring her back
home again.”
Mick Terry Better Be
A Better Boy
ALLUSION
 A reference in a
literary work to a
person, place, or
thing in history or
another work of
literature.
 Often indirect or
brief references to
well-known
characters or events.
 Fluffy
was a
reference to
Cerberus-a threeheaded dog that
guarded the gates
of the Underworld
from Greek/Roman
Mythology!
ALLUSION EXAMPLES
 I was surprised his
nose was not growing
like Pinocchio’s.
 When she lost her
job, she acted like a
Scrooge, and refused
to buy anything that
wasn’t necessary
 He was a real Romeo
with the ladies.
 Chocolate was her
Achilles’ heel.
Allusions in Songs:
“…and I may be romantic,
and I may risk my life
for it/but I ain't
gonna’ die for you/you
know I ain't no Juliet.“
Dresden Dolls Ampersand
“T'was in the darkest
depths of Mordor, I
met a girl so fair. But
Gollum, and the evil one,
crept up and slipped
away with her…”
Led Zeppelin Ramble On