Figurative Language in Songs
I am pretty excited about my lesson tomorrow. We are going to listen to some songs and analyze them for simile, metaphor, cliche, alliteration, etc. Today I told one class what we would be doing and she asked, "Are these recent songs?" I laughed and told her they were songs from my computer. I would like to show them through songs they know, but it took me long enough to find figurative language in songs that I know, it would take so much longer with songs I don't know. So these are the songs that I ended up with:

• We didn't start the fire by Billy Joel. (allusions)
  
• On a Prayer by Garth Brooks (metaphor)
  
• Blinded By the Light by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (parallel structure, alliteration)
  
• All for Love by Bryan Adams, with Sting and Rod Stewart (cliche) And I DO have to say that I did not own this one but purchased it for the cliche.
  
• The Freshman by Verve Pipe alliteration
  
• Don't Rain on my Parade (idiom)
  
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer by the Beatles (onomatopoeia)
  
• Every Other Time by LFO (repetition, hyperbole, simile)
  
• You are the Sunshine of My Life by Stevie Wonder (metaphor)

I think it will be a fun day.
- posted by Alicia @ 5:34 PM