Figurative language in songs

Front

Baby you're a firework

Back

metaphor

Front

Cuddly as a cactus.

Back

simile

Front

If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting. Time after time.

Back

idiom

Front

The moon won't come out to play.

Back

Personification

Front

cry me a river

Back

hyperbole

Front

Metaphor: comparison between two things to show similarity

Back

comparison between two things to show similarity

Front

Simile:

Back

comparison using like or as

Front

Hyperbole

Back

An exaggeration to emphasize something.

Front

Idiom: a common expression that means more than the sum of its words.

Back

a common expression that means more than the sum of its words.

Front

Personification

Back

Giving human qualities to an inanimate thing.