Using Katy Perry S Firework To Identify Figurative Language Poetry Devices PDF
Using Katy Perry S Firework To Identify Figurative Language Poetry Devices PDF
Name: _______________________
Identify, label, and explain the type of figurative language or poetic device used in the song lyrics.
Examples may include: imagery devices such as metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole; sound
devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme; and rhetorical devices
such as anaphora and epistrophe.
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(Chorus)
16 Cause baby you're a firework
17 Come on show 'em what youre worth
18 Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
19 As you shoot across the sky
20 Baby you're a firework
21 Come on let your colors burst
22 Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
23 You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down
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27
Maybe you're the reason why all the doors are closed
So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road
30 Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow
31 And when it's time, you'll know
32 You just gotta ignite the light
33 And let it shine
34 Just own the night
35 Like the Fourth of July
(Repeat Chorus)
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Finding Figurative Language in Katy Perrys Firework CopyrightTracee Orman, 2010-2011 www.traceeorman.com
Name: _______________________
TEACHERS GUIDE
Firework by Katy Perry
Identify & Label the Poetic Devices
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(Chorus)
16 Cause baby you're a firework
17 Come on show 'em what youre worth
18 Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
19 As you shoot across the sky
20 Baby you're a firework
21 Come on let your colors burst
22 Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
23 You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down
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27
Name: _______________________
Maybe you're the reason why all the doors are closed
So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road
30 Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow
31 And when it's time, you'll know
32 You just gotta ignite the light
33 And let it shine
34 Just own the night
35 Like the Fourth of July
(Repeat Chorus)
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38
39
You and your students may find more examples. These are just a few. The repetition of words in lines
36-38 can be an example of epistrophe; the chorus being repeated is also an example of epistrophe.
Some words are not spoken, but implied from previous lines. For example, in lines 5-6 you is still being
implied from line 4 in the comparison of you being like a house of cards/One blow from caving in.
ADVANCED: The first three lines may be an allusion to the 1999 movie American Beauty and the iconic image
of the plastic bag dancing in the wind, giving it a deeper metaphor (see this article by Alan Ball from Slate.com).
Although, if you want to look at it in a cynical way, maybe the house of cards in line 5 is an allusion to The
Brady Bunch episode where Tiger, the dog, knocks down the cards in the boys vs. girls contest. ;]
Song lyrics from http://katy-perry.com/2010/10/08/firework-lyrics-video/ (Play the audio in class while they work.)
Song released August 24, 2010; from the album Teenage Dream, Copyright owned by Capitol Records; lyrics written by Perry,
Tor Hermansen, Mikkel Eriksen, Sandy Wilhelm, Ester Dean THIS LESSON IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH KATY PERRY OR
CAPITOL RECORDS; IT IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.
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