Help me study Figurative
Language!
 Identify what type of
Figurative Language is
being used
 Explain where you see it
and what does the author
reveal by using it?
My heart’s a stereo…it
beats for you so listen
close…
“Stereo Hearts”
Gym Class Heroes
“The Road Not Taken”
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
by Green Day
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
When the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone
Break a leg
As You Like It
Jacques, Act II, Scene vii
William Shakespeare
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women
merely players.”
“So I opened it – you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily – until, at length, a single dim ray,
like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and full upon the vulture eye.”
Shine bright like a diamond.
Shine bright like a diamond.
“Diamond”
by Rihanna
“Because I Could Not Stop For Death”
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage help but just Ourselves –
And
Immortality.
You know
I'm no Pinocchio,
I've never told a lie
So call me
Mr. Magic Man, I float
on Cloud 9
I got the magic in me (I
got the magic, baby)
“Magic”
B.O.B.
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It irks me…that the
partner of her iniquity
should not, at least, stand
on the scaffold by
her side.”
“Lose Yourself”
Eminem
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
(You better)
“The Eagle”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)
He clasps the crag with crooked
hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he
stands.
“Dynamite”
Taio Cruz
I came to dance, dance, dance, dance
I hit the floor
'Cause that's my, plans, plans, plans, plans
I'm wearing all my favorite
Brands, brands, brands, brands
Give me space for both my hands, hands, hands, hands
You, you
Cause it goes on and on and on
And it goes on and on and on
By Nicki Minaj
“Super Bass”
Boy you got my heartbeat runnin' away
Beating like a drum and it's coming your way
Can't you hear that boom,
badoom, boom
Boom,
badoom,
boom bass?
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
Edgar Allan Poe
“At the same time, my forehead seemed bathed in
a clammy vapor, and the peculiar smell of
decayed fungus arose to my nostrils.”
“Love Story”
Taylor Swift
'Cause you were Romeo,
I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go and I said…
“Grenade”
Bruno Mars
I'd catch a grenade for ya
Throw my hand on a blade for ya
I'd jump in front of a train for ya
You know I'd do anything for ya
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes, I would die for you, baby
But you won't do the same