Clean Rap Battle Follow along in class with the music video and answer the questions that follow.
"I'm switching up my style like the Beatles with my pieces."
What figurative language is used?
"You're pathetically predictable."
What figurative language is used?
"Looking like the end of Macbeth." What figurative language is used?
In the line, "You're not a doctor / I've never seen a softer author," explain how irony is used to insult the opponent. Answer in RACE format.
Find a song lyric that contains any one example of figurative language. Post the lyric (keep it brief; I don't want any more than four lines!) and explain what figurative language is being used and what the message of the lyric is.
Drag each example of figurative language from Act I into the correct category.
"We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day."
"Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat, not half so big as a round little worm."
"The all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match since first the world begun."
"I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move."
"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear."
"My only love, sprung from my only hate!"
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Irony
Alliteration
"It pricks like thorn" is an example of a
"The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she" is an example of a
Explain the meaning of "We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day." How does this reflect Mercutio’s attitude?
Place the following examples of figurative language from Act I on a timeline of events. Drag each quote to the correct event.
| Draggable item | arrow_right_alt | Corresponding Item |
|---|---|---|
Mercutio encourages Romeo to dance. | arrow_right_alt | "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" |
Romeo expresses reluctance to join the party. | arrow_right_alt | "My only love, sprung from my only hate!" |
Romeo sees Juliet for the first time at the party. | arrow_right_alt | "I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move." |
Juliet discovers Romeo is a Montague. | arrow_right_alt | "My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." |
Romeo and Juliet speak to each other for the first time. | arrow_right_alt | "We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day." |
Using your matches from Question 10, reorder the quotes in the sequence that they happen in the story.
"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"
"I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move."
"My only love, sprung from my only hate!"
"We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day."
"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."