FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Road Hog Rug Rat Couch Potato

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE • • • Road Hog / Rug Rat / Couch Potato All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players / They have their exits and their entrances A Fat person gets stuck in a door at a fast food outlet. .

§ § § The vines wove their fingers together to form a braid. If I go crazy then will you still call me superman? If I’m alive and well will you be there a holding my hand? I’ll keep you by my side with my super human might Krytonite. The committee shot down her ideas. Let's get lost tonight / You could be my black Kate Moss tonight. . Lightning danced across the sky.

§ § § I think you’re fine. You really blow my mind. Maybe some day you and me can run away. I just want you to know, I want to be your Romeo. Hey Juliet - Hey Juliet The band 'Good Charlotte' became rich and famous thanks to their song 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' which criticized the rich and famous for their lifestyles. . You know how long I've been on ya? / Since Prince was on Apollonia / Since O. J. had Isotoners / Don't act like I never told ya

§ § § Reading that book kindled his interest in politics. Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. - Proverb His head was spinning with ideas. Special scissors for cutting plastic "suicide packaging" are sold in "suicide packaging"? . . . Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe. - John Milton

§ § § The person who wrote and sung the song "Don't worry, be happy" committed suicide. . . Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie. - slogan for Oreo cookies In an effort to restrict viewership of a morally offensive movie, the city council bans exhibition of the movie in theatres. By banning the movie, the city council creates such a heightened awareness of the movie, that more people download and view pirated copies of the movie over the internet - specifically because it was banned - than would have viewed it in theatres to begin with

§ § And like the flowers beside them chill and shiver, Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone - Robert Frost He was dressed rather vulgarly in a loud checked suit. Bow in the presence of greatness / 'Cause right now thou hast forsaken us / You should be honored by my lateness Walter had so much trouble in physics; he just couldn't grasp the concepts.

§ § § 'Cause this is Louis Vuitton Don night / So we gon' do everything that Kan like / Heard they'd do anything for a Klondike The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws! - Homer Simpson, “The Simpsons” Velvet remembers how it wrapped around me. Keeping me warm on a snowy day. Velvet remembers how it laid softly on my bed. Velvet tells me not to forget it. - Rachael

§ § The operation is over. On the table, the knife lies spent, on its side, the bloody meal smeardried upon its flanks. The knife rests. - Richard Selzer, "The Knife" Only the champion daisy trees were serene. After all, they were part of a rain forest already two thousand years old and scheduled for eternity, so they ignored the men and continued to rock the diamondbacks that slept in their arms. It took the river to persuade them that indeed the world was altered. - Toni Morrison, “Tar Baby”

§ § § The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! - slogan for Chevrolet automobiles Stars bring me up with you, bring me to the place you sleep. How do you do it? Bring me to your home. Bring your thoughts to me. Share them with me. - Alex Hey Diddle, the cat and the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon; the little dog laughed to see such sport. And the dish ran away with the spoon. - Mother Goose