Figurative Language in Songs

When we were younger and free,
I've forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet." Is an example of...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

He keeps on forgetting what he wrote down. The whole crowd grows so loud. He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out. - Eminem

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Hello from the other side
I must have called a thousand times.
Is an example of...

• hyperbole

• symbols

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What technique is Lewis Capaldi using here?

So, before you go

Was there something I could've said to make your heart beat better?

If only I'd have known you had a storm to weather

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Hello Darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When we were younger and free

I've forgotten how it felt

Before the world fell at our feet

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I'd catch a grenade for ya; I'd throw my head on a blade for ya; I'd jump in front of a train for ya

• simile

• metaphor

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Answer explanation

he repeats "for ya" over and over (hyperbole would also have been a correct answer)

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When we were younger and free

I've forgotten how it felt

Before the world fell at our feet

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Remember when we couldn't take the heat
I walked out, I said, I'm setting you free
But the monsters turned out to be just trees
When the sun came up
You were looking at me."
Is an example of...

• cliche

• alliteration

• simile

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

You sharp like barbed wire
She stole my heart, then she got archived
I kept it short with her, Lord Farquaad

Match each phrase in these lyrics with the correct figurative language term.

• She stole my heart

• Allusion

• You sharp like barbed wire

• Idiom

• I kept it short with her

• Pun

• Lord Farquaad

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4