Sensory Language in Songs

“You, with your words like knives, and swords and weapons that you use against me” - Taylor Swift, "Mean" (Select 2)

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• repetition

"You, with your words like knives, and swords and weapons that you use against me. You, have knocked me off my feet again, got me feeling like a nothing" - Taylor Swift, "Mean" What is the meaning?

• the person is cutting her with a knife

• the person is saying hurtful things to her

• the person is pushing her over

"She's just a girl, and she's on fire. [She's] hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway.

She's living in a world, and it's on fire" - Alicia Keys, "Girl On Fire" (Select 2)

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

"Girl tonight you look so pretty, yes you do. New York City can't shine as bright as you" - Plain White T's, "Hey There Delilah" (Select 3)

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• idiom

• imagery

"We are searchlights, we can see in the dark. We are rockets, pointed up at the stars" - Pink, "What About Us" (Select 3)

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

• repetition

"Hello Darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again" - Disturbed (original by Simon and Garfunkel), "The Sound of Silence"

Type one type of figurative language used in this excerpt.

"Fools," said I, "You do not know. Silence, like a cancer, grows.

Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you." But my words, like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells, of silence" - Disturbed (original by Simon and Garfunkel,) "The Sound of Silence"

What is the message?

• they are comparing raindrops and silence

• they are frustrated that no one is listening

• they are complaining that things are too quiet

"You're giving me a million reasons to let you go. You're giving me a million

reasons to quit the show" - Lady Gaga, "Million Reasons" (Select 3)

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• repetition

• alliteration

• personification

"You start to freeze as Horror looks you right between the eyes" - Michael Jackson, "Thriller" (Select 2)

• personification

• hyberbole

• simile

• metaphor

"I walk this empty street on the boulevard of broken dreams, where the city sleeps and I'm the only one, and I walk alone" - Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Select 2)

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile