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BELLWORK 10/28

Define the following terms:

1. Imagery2. Simile3. Metaphor4. Hyperbole5. Personification6. Alliteration7. Onomatopoeia

IMAGERYAny 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 LANGUAGETools poets use to paint a picture with words aka-Imagery

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEWords or

phrases that depart from everyday literal language for the sake of:

1) Comparison2) Emphasis3) Clarity,4) Freshness.

Used well, figurative language will:

1) Enhance your fiction

2) Get an image or point across in a creative way

SIMILEMakes 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 EXAMPLESMy 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 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 EXAMPLESThe 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 whywhy, 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

PERSONIFICATIONA 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?”

PUNA 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 two-tired.

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

HYPERBOLEA 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 dim-witted 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 athousand days.”A Year Without

RainSelena Gomez

OXYMORON 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.

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 beforeShe's a brick and I'm drowning slowlyoff 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 EXAMPLESFlags 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 describeIt's sort of lub, dub, lub, dubA sound in my head that I can't describeIt's sort of zoom, zip, hiccup, dripDing, dong, crunch, crack, bark, meow, whinnie, quack!”

Todd Rundgren Onomatopoeia

“Mmm bop, ba duba dopBa du bop, ba duba dop”

Hanson MMMBop

ALLITERATIONA 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 Westas she melted to smoke…

-Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein

ALLITERATION EXAMPLESOnce 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

ALLUSIONA 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 three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the Underworld from Greek/Roman Mythology!

ALLUSION EXAMPLESI 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