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Analyzing Love Songs: Figurative Language and Tone/Mood Exploration

Explore figurative language and tone/mood in love songs. Identify similes, metaphors, and more. Share and adjust the tone based on lyrics.

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Analyzing Love Songs: Figurative Language and Tone/Mood Exploration

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  1. Mood & Tone some more This time with LOVE songs…

  2. Guidelines & Reminders • Open up your Poetry Daily Work document • Label the top “Song Lyrics” • Go to my website and open up the power point labeled “Song Lyrics” • We are going to be first reading the lyrics and looking for FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE and TONE/MOOD and then listening to the song

  3. Protocol • Preview the lyrics by clicking on the link provided. You will do this SILENTLY and INDIVIDUALLY. • Then, write down ALL the examples of figurative language that you find: • Simile/Metaphor/Personification/Repetition/Rhyme/Onomatopoeia/Imagery/Alliteration • Share

  4. Tone/Mood • Write down the “Tone” of the song. • Use the “Tone/Mood Words” link on my website • We will be listening to the song together. • When you’re finished revisit the tone you picked and make adjustments, if necessary. • Use TWO pieces of evidence to support the tone. • Then, select a logical mood for you, the listeners, based on the tone you selected.

  5. Links • Lyrics for Song #1: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/elvis+presley/cant+help+fallin+in+love_20172909.html • Link for Song #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqv5b0UjR4g • Lyrics for Song #2: http://www.elyrics.net/read/j/j.-geils-band-lyrics/love-stinks-lyrics.html • Link for Song #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyP-7ulafFQ • Lyrics for Song #3: http://www.elyrics.net/read/r/rihanna-lyrics/we-found-love-(Ft.-calvin-harris)-lyrics.html • Link for Song #3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaGZYDGcUw

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