Welcome to Figurative Speech Boot Camp!!!

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

2. …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.

3. Are you READY for Metaphors???

4. 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

5. “I Am a Rock” by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel 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. 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.

6. 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!

7. Who are we?

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

9. 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

10. Are you READY for Similes???

11. I want a girl with a mind like a diamondI want a girl who knows whats bestI want a girl with shoes that cutAnd eyes that burn like cigarettesI want a girl with the right allocationWhos fast, and thorough, and sharp as a tackShes playing with her jewelry, shes putting up her hairShes touring the facility and picking up slackI want a girl with a short skirt,And a looooooooooooooooooong jacket “Short Skirt, Long Jacket” by Cake

12. I want a girl who gets up earlyI want a girl who stays up lateI want a girl with uninterrupted prosperityWho uses a machetti to cut through red tapeWith fingernails that shine like justiceAnd a voice that is dark like tinted glassShe is fast, thorough, and sharp as a tackShes touring the facility and picking up slackI want a girl with a short skirt,And a long, long jacket

13. I want a girl with a smooth liquidationI want a girl with good dividendsAt citi bank we will meet accidentallyWell start to talk when she borrows my penShe wants a car with a cup holder arm restShe wants a car that will get her thereShe’s changing her name from kiddy to karenShe’s trading her mg for a white chrysler le barronI want a girl with a short skirt,And aLoooooooong jacket

14. 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

15. "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 Similes in Hip Hop…

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. Are you READY for Personification???

19. “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 whispersMaryA broom is drearily sweepingUp the broken pieces of yesterday’s life Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife And the wind, it cries Mary

20. 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

21. 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

22. What are some HUMAN actions?

23. 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!

24. 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.

25. Jeopardy Review and Closing!!!