The kids enjoy this because they get to work with material they picked and listen to music - any teenager's favorite pastime.
Directions Tell kids to bring the words to their favorite song to class.
Review with students literary devices such as assonance, alliteration, personification, metaphors, similes, imagery, etc. . . . Tell the kids the next session will be a workshop where they will find as many examples as possible of literary devices in their songs. As they work on their songs, they get to listen to the actual CD or cassette tape with their song on it. They only get to play the one song they are using for their assignment. I then have the kids exchange papers and check for the terms they found or missed.