Figurative Language-Music

Identify the figurative language:
A winters day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

Identify the figurative language:
A shooting star once said to me
That nothing’s really what it seems
‘You must make up your own mind’
Well I’ll try this time

• Alliteration
• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Identify the figurative language:
_{Do you know
I count your heartbeats before you sleep?
I bite my fingernails to bone (to bone)
And then I crawl back under the stairwell
To a place I call my home.}

• Metaphor
• Pun
• Imagery
• Hyperbole

Identify the figurative language:
If I didn't go away to school
Then where would we be
Probably still together and somewhere happy
If I'm supposed to be moved on in a new relationship strong
Then why are you still haunting me?

• Simile
• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the figurative language:
I don't wanna take your precious time
'Cause you're such a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty face
But you turned into a pretty big waste of my time

• Alliteration
• Repetition
• Pun
• Onomatopoeia

Identify the figurative language:
When your legs don't work like they used to before
And I can't sweep you off of your feet
Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?
Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks?

• Personification
• Pun
• Metaphor
• Understate...

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the figurative language:
Cause baby, now we've got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look what you've done
Cause baby, now we've got bad blood, hey!

• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

Identify the figurative language:
I let you get away with
Thinking you're the cure
I think I'm in too deep
It's time to pull the cord

• Simile
• Pun
• Imagery
• Idiom

Identify the figurative language:
Turn the lights off in this place
And she shines just like a star
And I swear I know her face
I just don't know who you are

• Simile
• Understatement
• Personification
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Identify the figurative language:
6 a.m., day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping
I am numb

• Hyperbole
• Imagery
• Idiom
• Metaphor