Song Lyrics
"Be a man With all the force of a great typhoon
Be a man With all the strength of a raging fire"
- Captain Li Shang, Mulan
What is a metaphor? What is it is showing that you need to be strong and forceful like the rough, harsh winds of a typhoon?
She's as fierce as a lioness protecting her cubs. -Lion King
What is a simile? What is she is fierce?
She loved the C's (crash, click, catch), the B's (blurt, babble)...
Onomatopoeia
You're as slow as molasses going up hill in the winter.
What is a simile? What is you move very slow?
The school stood tall and proud.
What is a personification? What is the school large and taken care of?
"Diamond, diamond, diamond, diamonds on me dancing"
-Drake, Diamonds Dancing
What is personification? What is drake has so much money he can afford to show off all his jewelry?
"May the force be with you" -Star Wars, Obi Wan Kanobi
What is a metaphor? What is may you have inner strength and peace?
The most treasured thing they owned, their family plan, was invisible, but everyone felt as if it were as solid as a building.
Simile - the family plan is firmly established
Love is blind
Mr. Bunnell is as sweet as pie.
What is a simile? What is he is very nice?
"Life is a highway"
-Rascal Flatts, Life is a Highway
What is a metaphor? What is life is a journey?
A dream is a wish your heart makes- Cinderella
What is personification? What is your heart tells you what you really want?
Mathematics, he said, was a search for order, pattern, and beauty.
Metaphor - Math is compared to a search, similar to a mystery to be solved.
Love is a battlefield
What is a metaphor? What is love is painful and a fight?
Her hair was a golden river.
What is a metaphor? What is her hair was long and blonde and flowy?
"Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street"
-Taylor Swift, Red
What is a similie? What is it means that he seems great but the relationship is going nowhere?
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." -Forest Gump, Forest Gump
What is a simile? What is life surprises you?
Early had heard the up-down dance of Langston's language so many times in the past couple of weeks that she remembered some of the words in the book.
Metaphor - Langston Hughes' poetic words are a dance, a rhythmic pattern of words.
We've bitten off more than we can chew.
What is idiom? What is they took on more than they could handle?
I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole? What is they are really really hungry?
"It's only right that you should play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness"
-Fleetwood Mac, Dreams
What is personification? What is it means that your loneliness is so overpowering and pay attention to what your feelings are telling you?
"a young man who, like the lamp, was more than what he seemed. A diamond in the rough." - Aladdin, Peddler
What is a metaphor? What is someone with potential?
She heard herself saying it, and wondered as the words flowed out if a lie could sometimes persuade the truth to happen.
Personification - a lie cannot persuade things to happen like a human; she wants the lie to cause truth to emerge
Cant carry a tune in a bucket
What is an idiom? What is you cant sing?
She hit the nail on the head.
What is an idiom? What is to have an accurate answer?