Rhetorical Devices in Song Lyrics

"Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street"

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

"Tick! Tock! On the clock but the party don't stop"

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

"You know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight"

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

"Little darling, it's been a long, cold, lonely winter"

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

"You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes"

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• alliteration

"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoiea

"I think to myself, what a wonderful world"

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

"My heart's a stereo; it beats for you"

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

"You've got a smile that takes me to another planet"

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoiea

"You change your mind like a girl changes clothes"

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification