Changes and High School

Author's Note: This is my point of view essay for the book Waiting For You. The whole book is in the point of view of Marisa, and throughout the whole book Marisa explains how she wants to change and what's to be better than she was last year.

Change, that's all Marisa wanted to do for her junior year of high school. Marisa was always a loner at school with only a couple friends. But this year she wanted more than anything to be completely different from that. Her goal this year is to be a "new her" and be someone completely different and Marisa will do anything for that to happen.

The reader might think that Marisa might be generous and determined. They might think Marisa's generous because she is always trying to help people around her school whenever she can and always tries to cheer people up if there having a bad day. Marisa might be considered determined because she is really trying to change, the author made it clear through Marissa by expressing how much Marissa wants to change and become a better person with more friends and being more popular. The way that Marissa is so determined and how she is so generous affects a lot of people in the story like her best friend, Marissa has always been a little bit jealous of her and always wanted her life in a way, her best friend's mom is really never home and she always gets to make the food and Marissa is also jealous of her because she has a lot more friends than her and she's also more popular than Marissa is.

If the point of view was through Nash's point of view; one of Marissa's friends that she used to have in kindergarten but isn't friends with anymore, Marissa might seem kind of funny and fun to be around. Back in kindergarten Nash and Marissa used to be best friends they did everything together but now there in high school they barely even talk anymore. But when Nash and Marissa end up being lab partners they start to become friends again. When Marissa and Nash do homework together they always find a way to just laugh, goof around and have a good time. If Marissa was thinking about Nash she might think that he was nerdy and more of a loner. Nash isn't the most popular at school and he's really smart which would make him more of a geek. Since Marissa was hoping to become more popular this year Nash really doesn't help her with that but she decided that sometimes it doesn't matter how popular you are it matters what people you spend it with.

Figurative Language in Music

Author's Note: In lots of Ed Sheeran's songs he has lots of examples of awesome figurative language, he uses lots of metaphors and smiles in his music. This are just two examples from two of his songs of how he uses personification in songwriting.

Sometimes while writing music songwriters like to add figurative language to make the song more realistic and to make the song come to live. Ed Sheeran is one of those songwriters. In almost all his songs he uses figurative language and this are just a few examples of how he uses figurative language.

The first example of Ed Sheeran using figurative language in one of his song is in 'Autumn Leaves'. In this song there is a really good example of a simile  In the song the lyrics are "float down like autumn leaves". The whole song he's explaining about how sometimes people just need somebody there to be with them. So the lyrics "float down like autumn  leaves" means that if you ever need anything that I'll be there for you. Ed Sheeran always tries to connect to his music so the song might possibly be about how he or one of his friends was facing a lot of struggles and they always tried to be there for each other.

in the song 'Autumn Leaves' there was an example of a simile but in 'A Team' there is also  more examples of similes. For example 'crumbling like pastries' is a simile, since he is comparing a person to an object that means that. these lyrics have to be a simile. This song is mainly about how in life people are going to make mistakes and your just going to have to get over it since what happened, happened and you can't fix what happened so you just have to get over it and keep living. Similes will affect the tone of the song by giving the song more meaning.

Not only do songwriters use similes to help people relate to the music more and to give the music more meaning they also sometimes add sound effects to express how they feel about the song. An example of using onomatopoeia in a song is the lyrics 'cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder, (mm). This song is mostly about how some people don't know how amazing they are so this lyrics mean that he loves all these little things about this one girl and he's trying to show the people that listen to his music how much she means to her by using onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia can affect the meaning of the song by expressing how the writer or character feels about something.

Song writers use lots of different figurative language to make there music more interesting. It gives things meaning and helps other people to relate to it. But there is not just figurative language in songs there is also figurative language all around us sometimes when you have a normal conversation with people they might use similes or onomatopoeia to express what they feel about for a certain topic.There is examples of figurative language in books, movies, magazines and newspaper figurative language is a way to express feelings and to make things more interesting.