Literary Devices in Music (IG-8)

"Smooth like butter, like a criminal undercover"

-Butter, BTS

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Oxymoron

"You're the face of the future, the blood in my veins, oh-ooh"

-Believer, Imagine Dragons

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

(Notice bold letters)

"So shine bright, tonight you and I
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky
Eye to eye, so alive"

-Diamonds, Rihanna

• Idiom

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

"You're hot when you're cold

You're yes then you're no

You're wrong when it's right"

-Hot N Cold, Katy Perry

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification

"That you were Romeo, you were throwin' pebbles

And my daddy said, 'Stay away from Juliet"

-Love Story, Taylor Swift

• Euphemism

• Irony

• Allusion

• Juxtaposition

"I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space"

-Happy, Pharell Williams

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

“And I think to myself

What a wonderful world.”

- Bob Thiele, George David Weiss, famously by Louis Armstrong

• Metaphor

• Litotes

• Zoomorphism

• Alliteration

"You were the shadow to my light

Did you feel us?

Another start"

-Faded, Alan Walker

• Rhetorical Question

• Juxtaposition

• Synesthesia

• Metaphor

"I'm a man of three fears

Integrity, faith and

Crocodile tears"

-Bad Liar, Imagine Dragons

• Euphamism

• Rule of three

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

”Peaches and cream

sweeter than sweet

chocolate cheeks

and chocolate wings

but your wings are the devil’s

before your sweetness there is bitter, bitter“

-Blood, Sweat, and Tears, BTS

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification