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John Appleseed 11/21/13 English Prd. SHAMPOO Shampoo- simile, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, oxymoron Time out By Jana Ghossein Help how much my heart hurts My mouth is as dry as a desert My throat is sore My voice is a goner My heart is beating as fast as a tiger My hand is a rattling snake My face is a tomato Bye bye, boring life I cannot take it no more I lay my head Upon my knee Now blow the whistle referee The poem, "Time Out," by Jana Ghossein has several examples of figurative language s well as elements that are classified as SHAMPOO (simile, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia and oxymoron).

One example is, "my mouth is as dry as a desert. " The narrator''s mouth is being compared to a desert using "as. " The next element of SHAMPOO used in the poem is a metaphor. The narrator, similarly to the previous example is comparing his hand to a rattling snake, however without using "like" or "as. " "My face is a tomato," is the next example. This is a hyperbole because it is an exaggeration.

His/her face is not as red as a tomato. The final example in the poem has several elements contained in it. "Bye bye boring life. " Not only is there alliteration from the b''s being used however, it shows an example of oxymoron. The words boring and life contradict each other; they are opposites so to speak. These are the elements of SHAMPOO and figurative language displayed in the poem, "Time Out," by Jana Ghossein. Shampoo By pcichy