Figurative Language in Song lyrics



Figurative Language in Song lyrics

Directions: Identify the appropriate kind of figurative language underlined in each example. Then see if you can identify the song as well ( title and artist).

Example

My music hits me so hard / makes me say oh my lord / personification Vanilla Ice

Thank you for blessing me / with a mind to rhyme / and Ice Ice Baby

A too hype beat

|Lyrics |Figurative Language |Artist / Song Title |

|1. Springsteen, Madonna, Way before Nirvana / There was U2 and Blondie and music | | |

|still on MTV / Her two kids in high school tell her that she’s uncool / ‘cause | | |

|she’s still preoccupied with 19, 19, 1985 | | |

|2. Now and then I think of when we were together / Like when you said you felt so| | |

|happy you could die. I told myself that you were right for me / But felt so | | |

|lonely in your company. | | |

|3-4. Boy you got my heartbeat runnin’ away | | |

|Beating like a drum and it’s coming your way | | |

|Can’t you hear that boom, badoom, boom | | |

|Boom, badoom, boom bass? | | |

|5. We are young | | |

|So let’s set the world on fire | | |

|We can burn brighter than the sun | | |

|6. ‘Cuase baby, you’re a firework | | |

|Come on, show ‘em what you’re worth | | |

|Make ‘em go, oh, oh / As you shoot across the sky | | |

|7. And when you smile | | |

|The whole world stops and stares for awhile | | |

|‘Cause girl, you’re amazing | | |

|Just the way you are | | |

|8-10. 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 I’m nothing | | |

|You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard, calling me out when I’m wounded. | | |

|11. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger | | |

|Stand a little taller / Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone / What doesn’t kill| | |

|you makes a fire. | | |

|12. You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it / You start | | |

|to freeze / as horror looks right between the eyes, You’re paralyzed | | |

|13. Hey there, Delilah, what’s it like in New York City | | |

|I’m a thousand miles away / But girl tonight you look so pretty / Yes, you do / | | |

|Times Square can’t shine as bright as you. | | |

|14. If you’ve ever been to Heaven, this is twice as nice | | |

|I’m cold as fire, baby / Hot as ice | | |

|15. Throw your soul through every open door / Count your blessings to find what | | |

|you live for / Turn my sorrow into treasure gold / You’ll pay me back in kind and | | |

|reap just what you sow. | | |

Answer Key to figurative language in songs

1. Allusion

2. Hyperbole

3. Personification

4. Onomatopoeia

5. Idiom

6. Metaphor

7. Hyperbole

8. Simile

9. Metaphor

10. Simile

11. Idiom

12. Personification

13. Allusion

14. Oxymoron

15. Figurative language

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