Song Lyrics-Figurative Language

"This time, This place
Misused, Mistakes
Too long, Too late"
"Far Away"
by Nickelback

• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

"You start to freeze as horror
looks you right between the eyes"
"Thriller"
by Michael Jackson

• Personification
• Alliteration

"You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as
I fell asleep"
"Fireflies"
by Owl City

• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia

"Tick! Tock!
on the clock
but the party don't stop"
"Tik Tok"
by Ke$sha

• Hyperbole
• Onomonopia

"Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could just see you 
Tonight"
"A Thousand Miles"
by Vanessa Carlton

• Hyperbole
• Simile

"Can you imagine no first
dance, freeze dried
romance, five-hour phone
conversation"
"Drops of Jupiter"
by Train

• Alliteration
• Metaphor

" You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed, sing like a bird
Dizzy in my head, spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night"
"Simile"
by Uncle Kracker

• Metaphor
• Simile

"You see the hate that they servin' on a platter
So what we gonna have, dessert or disaster?"
"Knock You Down"
by Keri Hilson

• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

"Imagine a dirt road full of
potholes, with a creek bank
and some cane poles
catching channel cat"
"A Little More Country Than That"
by Easton Corbin

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

"Smooth as a hickory wind
That blow from Memphis
Down to Apalachicola"
Southern Voice
by Tim McGraw

• Metaphor
• Simile