Figurative language in songs

Baby you're a firework

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

You're as cuddly as a cactus.

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

• idiom

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting

Time after time

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

• imagery

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CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

the moon won't come out to play

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• imagery

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CCSS.L.6.5A

cry me a river

• simile

• personification

• apostrophe

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a metaphor?

• a comparison between two things to show similarity

• a comparison using like or as

• an exaggeration

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a simile?

• an exaggeration

• giving human qualities to an inanimate thing

• comparison using like or as

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is hyperbole?

• an exaggeration to emphasize something

• a comparison between two things

• a common phrase that together means more than what each word means on its own

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an idiom?

• a common expression that put together means more than what each word means on its own

• an exaggeration

• a comparison between two things

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CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B

What is personification?

• an exaggeration

• a comparison between two things

• giving human qualities to an inanimate thing

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CCSS.L.6.5A