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    ENGL 10 English Grade 10

    SONG = POETRY? ANALYZING SONG LYRICS AS POETRY


    Overview Please collect a song for analysis and bring a recording of it to class as well as a copy of the lyrics. Keep it appropriate! A good rule of thumb is not to use anything you wouldn't want your grandmother to hear. Questions 1. What is this song about? What does the title have to do with the song? /2 2. What message is the song trying to convey to the listener? /2 3. What three poetic sound devices can you find? Write the lines that you find each device in and explain. /6 4. What two figurative devices can you find in the lyrics? Write the lines that you find each device in and explain. /4 Product Your final product should be complete and thoughtful answers to the above questions. POETIC DEVICES: Term alliteration assonance consonance imagery

    Meaning repetition of the initial consonant sounds repetition of vowel sound repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowel sounds language that evokes sensory images

    Example terrible truths and lullaby lies mystery disguised within gripe, grape, grope drip of ruby teardrops (aural/sound) lips like cool sweet tea (oral/taste) piece of me emerges I am the "Lone Star" buzzz crackle pop the desk stepped forward, the trees bowed in the wind life for me is wild and free lusty eyes (A) passionate cries (A) bitter sweat (C) she dies (A) notes dance like twinkling stars always open like a rosebud about to bloom (a young girl) the eagle (symbol of freedom)

    internal rhyme metaphor onomatopoeia personification rhyme rhyme scheme

    rhyming that occurs within the line comparison of unlike things (without using like or as) a word that imitates the sound it represents giving human qualities or characteristics to animals or objects a pattern of words that contains similar sounds at the end of the line a repeated pattern of rhymed words at the end of the line

    simile stanza symbol

    a comparison using like or as a group of poetic lines (also called a verse) an object or action that means more than its literal meaning

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