Poetic Devices & Song Lyrics Assignment

Step 1: Create a Shared Doc

- Elect one student at your table to create a shared doc in your English folder.  Title it: "Song Lyrics Project"
- Share with classmates at table.

Step 2: Research Songs

- Each student will choose a favorite song with vivid lyrics.
- Look up the lyrics
- Identify 3 examples of poetic devices

Step 3: Add to Doc

- Add your song and examples to the shared doc, following this format:

Mrs. Hunt: "Dirty Paws" by Of Monsters & Men: lyrics

• Poetic Devices: metaphor, rhyme, personification

• Metaphor: "My head is an animal". - comparing motions of animals to jumbled thoughts.
• Rhyme: "The son was an okay guy./They had a pet dragonfly."
• Personification: "The forest of talking trees"

More examples of this assignment: http://room40poetry.wordpress.com/songs/