figurative language in music and poetry and life

"Just like a moth drawn to a flame, Oh, you lured me in, I couldn't sense the pain."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• night-time butterfly

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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...

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Identify the sound device:

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

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CCSS.RL.5.4

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

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Identify the sound device language:

_{Boom! shake-shake-shake the room}

_{Boom! shake-shake-shake the room}

_{Boom! shake-shake-shake the room}

_{Tic-tic-tic-tic Boom!}

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Understate...

• Idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.4

Identify the figurative language:
If I’m not making any sense
Then you’re not at fault
You just haven’t yet felt emptiness
Like the taste of a flat soda

• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Imagery
• Simile

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"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

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

• hyperbole
• symbols
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"So let the light guide your way, yeah
Hold every memory as you go
And every road you take
Will always lead you home, home."
Is an example of...

• personification
• imagery
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbolw

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4