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Monday, April 30, 2012

Name that poetic device...

Your challenge is to find a song that exemplifies one of the following poetic devices:  metaphor, simile, or alliteration.   Write the verse(s) or stanza of the lyrics that best showcases this poetic device.  Be sure to give credit by posting the song's name and the artist as well.   Watch out for profanities!  Good luck!

6 comments:

  1. Jacqueline Plavnicky
    A Year Without Rain by Selena Gomez

    The song "A year Without Rain" by Selena Gomez has a simile in it. When it says: "A day without you is like a year without rain", it is using a simile. A simile is using the words like or as.

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  2. Justin LeMoine
    Taio Cruz - Dynamite
    This song has a simile in it. When it says: We gon' light it up like its dynamite. That was the sentence that was the simile. A simile is using the words like or as

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  3. Dynamite Taio Cruz
    We are going to light it up like it's Dynamite. Using as.
    By jacob V.

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  4. Emma Campos
    Heartless;Kanye West

    "How could you be so cold as the winter wind"
    He uses as when he is talking about this person!

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  5. Kaitlin Kerr
    Stero Hearts
    Gym Class Heroes

    "My heart's a stero" is a meataphor because it does not use like or as to compare the guy's heart to a stero.

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