Day 16 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE POETIC DEVICES TODAY Goals

Day 16 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE & POETIC DEVICES

TODAY Goals Focus Question • To explore how poets and • What poetics forms and song writers use figurative devices do poets use? language

WHAT IS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE (RECAP) • Language not meant to be taken literally. • A way to describe an experience with words rather than the obvious description.

A CLICHÉ by Eve Merriam A cliché is what we all say when we’re too lazy to find another way and so we say warm as toast, quiet as a mouse, slow as molasses, quick as a wink. Think. Is toast the warmest thing you know? Think again, it might not be so. Think again: it might even be snow! Soft as lamb’s wool, fleecy snow, a lacy shawl of new-fallen snow. Listen to that mouse go scuttling and clawing, nibbling and pawing. A mouse can speak if only a squeak. Is a mouse the quietest thing you know? Think again, it might not be so. Think again: it might be a shadow. Quiet as a shadow, quiet as growing grass, quiet as a pillow, or a looking glass. Slow as molasses, quick as a wink. Before you say so, take time to think. Slow as time passes when you’re sad and alone; quick as an hour can go happily on your own. Copyright © 1964 from It Doesn’t Always Have to Rhyme, by Eve Merriam taken from Language And How To Use It by Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois Copyright © 1969, 1973 by by Scott, Foresman and Company All Rights Reserved.

FINDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN MOVIES & LYRICS • Video link: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Qkz 6 jcn. DY-o

COOL KIDS • Listen to Echosmith’s song, “Cool Kids” and annotate lyrics and complete TSP-FASTT along with the questions. • Pay close attention to use of Figurative language and be sure to notate in your annotation.

ASSIGNMENT: GO THROUGH PACKET IN ORDER… THEN: • In your table groups, complete a close reading of one of the following songs • keep in mind that all writers, lyricists included, have messages they want to send out into the world, but they want us to do some of the work. • They want us to read closely and pay attention to details. The more carefully we pay attention, the more the writer’s message will be revealed. • Work together to generate answers to the questions. • THEN: answer the following questions in a paragraph form INDIVIDUALLY on a separate sheet of paper. You are writing an analysis of the song, so be sure that you don’t just answer the questions, but also make the paragraph flow smoothly.

TODAY: • Folder Check • Meet with Counselors • Continue working on portfolio • Continue yesterday’s assignments

TODAY: • Warm-up • Then: Meet with Counselors • I will call you in small groups • Work quickly on Warm-up!