Find examples of your own of your ten favorite figures of speech in the handout. Find these examples "in the wild"--in speeches, songs, TV, whatever. Post them as comments on here, please, before class on 10/5.
Choose one of the speeches (or poems, etc.) linked HERE. Memorize it. Google about it to find information to make your performance make sense; you'll want to know who is speaking and what the context or rhetorical situation of the speech is. Be ready to recite it in class on October 5!
the link to the speeches...isn't there! There is not hotlink to the word "HERE".
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ReplyDeleteThese are lyrics from my FAVORITE artist, Miguel, which include a bunch of metaphors: "If you be the cash, I'll be the rubberband, You be the match, Imma be your fuse, BOOM! Painter baby, You could be the muse, I'm the reporter baby, You could be the news, Cause your the cigarette, And I'm the smoker, We raise a bet, Cause you're the joker."
ReplyDeleteAfter not seeing my best friend in a few weeks, he tends to say, "La-Quan! I haven't seen you in aeons! I miss you." This would be an example of a hyperbole
ReplyDeletethe white house released a statement - metonymy
ReplyDeleteTwo scientists walk into a bar
The first one says “I’ll have some H2O.” The second one says, “I’ll have some H2O too.” Then he dies. - pun
Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him …(Oh, man, this is so bad, it’s good)… A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. - another pun
your momma is so fat she has her own zip code - hyperbole
Knock-knock Who's there?
Boo
Boo who?
Don't cry, I was only joking. -onomatopoeia
"They hung in the air in exactly the way that bricks don't." - metaphor
lips like sugar - simile
Oh Rose, thou art sick! - personification
Like a foam-topped water-spout
Cast down headlong in the sea,
She fell at last - metaphor
Microsoft Works, virtual reality, Living dead - oxymoron
talking heads - metonymy
a teacher saying "Bueller? Bueller?" to get a student's attention would be an allusion.
Saw these on the "Red Green Show": One called Rothchild Sewage and Septic Sucking Service... a joke using alliteration
ReplyDeleteSecond joke was their motto: "We're number one in the number two business", a pun
My niece's favorite saying repeated ad nauseum: "I've done that 1000 times alreay!" for any studying, a bit of hyperbole
Changing trains at North Station heard this multiple times: Boston Bruins are the Best Baby, unintentional alliteration
My sister asking for Band Aids and Pepsi...only knock off generic brands of both are ever bought so I believe it's periphrasis
Talking about her new kitten my niece mentioned it was "as cute as a button", a simile
My friend talking about a long, annoying conversation with someone she hates: "well that was fun, wasn't it?"...Irony
Something I usually say about my aunt's front door: "this door hates me, it always refuses to open for me"...personification
The "All the World's a stage" line written by William Shakespeare...Metaphor
My niece's claims when delaying her work: "Almost done" an oxymoron
"I'll be done in two seconds." But the person really takes 2 minutes. -Hyperbole
ReplyDeleteSomeone saying how much they dislike facebook, but yet they post statuses every hour because they're bored. -Irony
Lyrics from Miguel, "Baby you are my peace of mind, other chicks want a piece of me, get the peace sign, you get the piece of love." -Consonance?
The wind sang through my window. -Personification
My bagel jumped out of the toaster. -Personification
"Girl I love you like a big kid loves cake." -Simile
Lil Wayne: "You had a lot of moments that didn't last forever, Now you're in the corner tryna put it together." -Rhyme
Lil Wayne: "You had a lot of dreams that transformed to visions, The fact that you saw the world affected all your decisions." -Rhyme
Onomatopoeia:
ReplyDeleteBaa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!
One for the master, one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
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You are seriously funny ( Oxymoron)
ReplyDeleteBy the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground…Genesis 3:19
(Synecdoche)
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Oxymoron: Numb Sensation, free gift, pretty ugly, click the start button to shut down.
ReplyDeleteHyperbole: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. I was so embarrassed I thought I might die. I have a million things to do today.
Irony: the song Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes
Allusion: the song Wake Me Up When September Ends by Greenday.