IT Home Learning Lesson 1: Figurative Language

The poem I chose is Messy Room by Shel Silverstein

Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--Huh?
You say it's mine?
Oh, dear,I knew it looked familiar!

1) Figurative language used in this poem are mainly Hyperbole.
Statements such as "wedged in the window" "jammed in the closet" "stuck to the wall" and "Oh, dear" are used as figurative language.
I think that the poet used these figurative language to exaggerate on how messy the room is.

2) I like this poem mainly because the poet has included humor in his poem. The poem was quite funny and thus, i chose this poem. The poem also has a great number of descriptive words. The poem is also closer to my daily life in the sense that I also consider my room to be a messy one. I like the way the poet ended his poem. He ended it with a twist, writing that the person that should be ashamed is not Donald or Robert or Wille but is actually he himself. In other words, the messy room was actually his!