Welcome to Figurative Speech Boot Camp!!! By the end of today, students will be able to…

…determine if a given quote from a piece of literature is an example of a simile, metaphor, personification or idiom … create poems that include their own examples of a simile, metaphor, and personification.

Are you READY for Metaphors???

“I Am a Rock” by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel A winters day In a deep and dark December; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island. Ive built walls, A fortress deep and mighty, That none may penetrate. I have no need of friendship; friendship Causes pain. Its laughter and its loving I disdain. I am a rock, I am an island. Don’t talk of love, But I’ve heard the words before; Its sleeping in my memory. I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried. I am a rock, I am an island. I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

“I Am a Rock” by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel A winters day In a deep and dark December; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island. Ive built walls, A fortress deep and mighty, That none may penetrate. I have no need of friendship; friendship Causes pain. Its laughter and its loving I disdain. I am a rock, I am an island. Don’t talk of love, But I’ve heard the words before; Its sleeping in my memory. I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried. I am a rock, I am an island. I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

Metaphors A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. Ex.) He is such a pig!

Who are we?

What words come to mind when you think of…??? (insert chosen image from the class)

YOUR TURN 1.) Pick an image from your “Who Am I???” sheet OR come up with your own. 2.) Brainstorm as many words as possible that have to do with your image on your word chart 3.) Start writing your poem

Are you READY for Similes???

“Short Skirt, Long Jacket” by Cake I want a girl with a mind like a diamond I want a girl who knows whats best I want a girl with shoes that cut And eyes that burn like cigarettes I want a girl with the right allocation Whos fast, and thorough, and sharp as a tack Shes playing with her jewelry, shes putting up her hair Shes touring the facility and picking up slack I want a girl with a short skirt, And a looooooooooooooooooong jacket

I want a girl who gets up early I want a girl who stays up late I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity Who uses a machetti to cut through red tape With fingernails that shine like justice And a voice that is dark like tinted glass She is fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack Shes touring the facility and picking up slack I want a girl with a short skirt, And a long, long jacket

I want a girl with a smooth liquidation I want a girl with good dividends At citi bank we will meet accidentally Well start to talk when she borrows my pen She wants a car with a cup holder arm rest She wants a car that will get her there She’s changing her name from kiddy to karen She’s trading her mg for a white chrysler le barron I want a girl with a short skirt, And a Loooooooong jacket

Similes A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as. Ex.) Armaun ran like the wind.

Similes in Hip Hop… "See, I drop the greats like clumsy waiters drop plates.“ - Mr. Man on "Fortified Live," Fortified Live “RRRRROAW RRRROAW like a dungeon dragon, change your little drawers because your pants are saggin'.“ - Busta Rhymes on "Scenario," Low End Theory "I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.” - Big Boi on "Atliens," Atliens

YOUR TURN 1.) Work in groups of two to rotate around the room 2.) Read the simile at your station 3.) Determine what two objects are being compared 4.) Determine why they are being compared, or what they both have in common.

Back to our poems… 1.) Read through your “I Am a _____” poem. 2.) Are there any opportunities for you to include a simile? 3.) Add at least 1-2 similes into your poem. 4.) Be prepared to share out your poem’s simile.

Are you READY for Personification???

“The Wind Cries Mary” by Jimi Hendrix After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Footprints dressed in red And the wind whispers Mary A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife And the wind, it cries Mary

The traffic lights they turn up blue tomorrow And shine their emptiness down on my bed The tiny island sags downstream ‘Cause the life that lived is, is dead And the wind screams Mary

Will the wind ever remember The names it has blown in the past And with his crutch, it’s old age, and it's wisdom It whispers no, this will be the last And the wind cries Mary

What are some HUMAN actions?

YOUR TURN 1.) Pick an object from your “I Am a ____” poem 2.) Write an example of personification using this object 3.) Figure out a way to include this phrase in your poem 4.) Try adding more examples of personification!

Revision and Practice 1.) Read your poem aloud to yourself 2.) Is there anything you feel you need to add, take away or move? 3.) Copy it into a final draft 4.) Practice reciting it over and over. Remember the Book Talk rubric!!! 5.) Be prepared to share in front of the group.

Jeopardy Review and Closing!!!