Directions: Work with your group to do the following:1. Take out a sheet of paper! 2. Sort the song lyrics into the figurative language categories to which

they belong. 3. If a lyric can fit into more than one category, put it under the

“Multiple” category.

When your group is finished sorting, work on your OWN to do the following:4. Choose your favorite song lyric. 5. Write the lyric NEATLY on a piece of computer paper (ask Miss Soto

for the paper).6. Write what type of figurative language it is under the lyric. For

example, simile, metaphor, etc.7. Draw a picture of the lyric.8. Tell what the lyric means

Here’s Miss Soto’s example:

Song Lyric:A mind with a heart of its ownYes a mind with a heart of its own

"A Mind With A Heart Of Its Own" by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Type of Figurative Language:Personification

Picture:

What it means: Sometimes we think with our heads and sometimes we think with our hearts. Sometimes our hearts take over.

Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Personification Multiple

In your house I long to be; Room by room patiently, I'll wait for you there, like a stone.I'll wait for you there, Alone. "Like A Stone" by Audioslave

I am not your rolling wheels, I am the highway.I am not your carpet, I am the sky.I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.I am not your autumn moon; I am the night. "I Am the Highway" by Audioslave

You lie like a priceless Persian rug on a rich man's floor.Well, you lie like a coon dog basking in the sunshine on my porch.Well, you lie like a penny in the parking lot at the grocery store.It just comes way too natural to you, The way you lie. "You Lie" by The Band Perry

You lie like the man with the slick back hair who sold me that Ford.Well, you lie like the pine tree in the back yard after last month's storm.Well, you lie like a penny in the parking lot at the grocery store.It just comes way too natural to you, The way you lie. "You Lie" by The Band Perry

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to playNow I need a place to hide away.Oh, I believe in yesterday. "Yesterday" by The Beatles

I guess he's an Xbox and I'm more Atari,But the way you play your game ain't fair. "Forget You!" by Cee-Lo Green

I look at the world and I notice it's turningWhile my guitar gently weepsWith every mistake we must surely be learningStill my guitar gently weeps "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles

I'm so glad that she's my little girlShe's so glad, she's telling all the world

"I Feel Fine" by The Beatles

Friday night arrives without a suitcaseSunday morning creep in like a nunMonday's child has learned to tie his bootlaceSee how they run "Lady Madonna" by The Beatles

Remember those walls I built?Well, baby they're tumbling downAnd they didn't even put up a fightThey didn't even make a sound

"Halo" by Beyonce

I found a way to let you inBut, I never really had a doubtStanding in the light of your haloI got my angel now "Halo" by Beyoncé

You'll be my soft and sweetI'll be your strong and steady…You'll be my sunny dayI'll be your shade treeYou'll be my honeysuckleI'll be your honey bee "Honey Bee" by Blake Shelton

Oh, this is how it starts, lightning strikes the heartIt goes off like a gun, brighter than the sunOh, we could be the stars, falling from the skyShining how we want, brighter than the sun "Brighter Than The Sun" by Colbie Caillat

Now and then I think of when we were togetherLike when you said you felt so happy you could die

"Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye

My heart's a stereoIt beats for you, so listen closeHear my thoughts in every noteMake me your radioAnd turn me up when you feel lowThis melody was meant for youJust sing along to my stereo "Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, Drifting through the windWanting to start again?

"Firework" by Katy Perry

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thinLike a house of cards,One blow from caving in? "Firework" by Katy Perry

You just gotta ignite the light, and let it shineJust own the night like the 4th of July "Firework" by Katy Perry

I was born in a crossfire hurricaneAnd I howled at my ma in the driving rain "Jumping Jack Flash" by The Rolling Stones

'Cause baby you're a fireworkCome on, show 'em what you're worthMake 'em go "Oh, oh, oh"As you shoot across the sky "Firework" by Katy Perry

When I get olderI will be strongerThey'll call me 'Freedom'just like a wavin' flag

"Wavin' Flag" by K’NAAN

Have you seen her dressed in blue?See the sky in front of youAnd her face is like a sailSpeck of white so fair and paleHave you seen a lady fairer? "She's A Rainbow" by The Rolling Stones

She comes in colors everywhere; She combs her hairShe's like a rainbow "She's A Rainbow" by The Rolling Stones

Have you seen her all in gold?Like a queen in days of oldShe shoots her colors all aroundLike a sunset going downHave you seen a lady fairer? "She's A Rainbow" by The Rolling Stones

I'd rather eat my soup with a fork Or drive a cab in New York Cuz to talk to you is harder work "Poem To A Horse" by Shakira

So what's the point of wasting all my words If it's just the same or even worse Than reading poems to a horse "Poem To A Horse" by Shakira

You, with your words like knivesAnd swords and weapons that you use against me

"Mean" by Taylor Swift

You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboardCalling me out when I'm wounded

"Mean" by Taylor Swift