Figurative Language in Popular Music

In Katy Perry's song Firework, there is a lyric which states, "do you ever feel like a plastic bag".

What is this an example of?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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The lyric "Frozen fractals" from Idina Menzel's song Let It Go is an example of...

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

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"Caught in a landslide" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

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"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti".

The bolded words are examples of what?

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Hyberbole

• Simile

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"You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes".

The bolded words are an example of?

• Personification

• Repetion

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

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"Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles

If I could just see you tonight.”

Which of these lyrics is an example of a hyperbole?

• You know I'd walk

• If I could just see you

• See you tonight

• Walk a thousand miles

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In these lyrics from Drops of Jupiter, what two types of figurative language can you see?

“Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance, five-hour phone conversation”

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

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"Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer" is an example of....

• simile

• metaphor

• personifcation

• hyperbole

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"And the shadow of the day will embrace the world in grey," is an example of..

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

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"Tick tock on the clock," is an example of...

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

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