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Figures of Speech Quiz
1. Hyperbole-really excited x
2. Metaphor-kind of like before x
3. Irony-10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife :)
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Ms. Engles couldn't figure out why all the theater kids were suddenly rocking her extra credit question.
If Katy says it, it must be so. I have therefore learned that on a Friday night kids these days hit the streets, get drunk, and have a threesome. Teenagers have learned what to call their weekly group sex if they plan on going to an Ivy League school.
Note the first grader swear under her breath before she sing-songs b-A-n-A-n-A-S!
Sure, the ladies of Moulin Rougue aren't exactly acting as a French phrasebook for backpacking college juniors, but it's a great way to practice your accent.
Figures of Speech Quiz
1. Hyperbole-really excited x
2. Metaphor-kind of like before x
3. Irony-10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife :)
Good Charlotte taught me not only about OJ Simpson but also about Marion Barry the crack smoking mayor of DC. Overall I learned a lot more about the way America is run from this song than I did from "I'm Just a Bill."
The real DARE lion might explain your grizzly incarcerated future if you dare pick up a joint, but Afroman is here to paint the younguns a much more disturbing picture-you'll fail your classes, lose the use of your legs, and be too baked to have sex. Scary stuff, man.
They Might Be Giants saved me from years of vainly searching for Constantinople on my map of Turkey.
[Editor's Note: This song is also how I learned that New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, though, I can't say.]
So this lesson does require Wikipedia, but it definitely sparks a lesson. Why else would a middle school kid Google random phrases from the song if not to see what it has to do with The Catcher in the Rye?
It might add chromosome to your vocabulary and teach you about the survival of the fittest but it can really, really confuse you about evolution.
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“Moulin Rouge” has been spelled wrong.
LOL I do use Hollaback Girl to spell bananas!!!
True story: I would have forgotten about the Bay of Pigs on my AP US History test if I hadn’t been singing “We Didn’t Start the Fire” in my head.
Also, New Amsterdam got renamed New York when the English took over the colony from the Dutch and the townspeople hated Peter Stuyvesant so much that they decided they’d rather be English than be ruled by him (oversimplification, but nevertheless kind of an awesome story).
Don’t forget Webbie’s I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T to help with spelling…
(I judge myself for even knowing that…)
Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” helped me study for the bar exam: “My glove compartment’s locked/So is the trunk in the back/And I know my rights/So you gonna need a warrant for that”
My 10th grade history teacher had a lesson on “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Easily the best day. We just watched the music video and “analyzed the historic events of the lyrics”.
Blondie teaches us about the atomic bomb. Atomic.
The TMBG song “The Sun Is A Mass of Incandescent Gas” also helped me learn that, well … the sun is a mass of incandescent gas.
Seconded!
I got an extra participation percentage in my tutorial last year when I answered the question, “What is irony?” with, “Rain on your wedding day.”