*****This week there will be two new types of figurative language. See if you can find any of the following:

Metonymy: Substituting one word or phrase for another that is closely related.
Ex. The White House stated today that... (White House stands for president)
Synecdoche: A part represents the whole.
Ex. The football player is hanging up his spikes. (It is true that the player is literally hanging up his spikes, but the term also means that he is retiring)

*****Remember - a phrase or word can be more than one type of figurative language. You need to decide which type most closely describes the phrase.

I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to bear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine

I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see right through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper
And I was free