Figurative Language

“It might seem crazy what I’m about to say / Sunshine she’s here, you can take a break / I’m a hot air balloon that could go to space.”
               - "Happy" by Pharrell Williams

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

"And I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears / So done with wishing you were still here / Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow / So why can't I turn off the radio?"
                                   - "So Sick" by Ne-Yo

• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• alliteration

“I’d catch a grenade for you / Throw my head on a blade for you / I’d jump in front of a train for you.” 
                  - "Grenade" by Bruno Mars

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• alliteration

"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk / I'm a woman's man—no time to talk / Music loud and women warm / I've been kicked around since I was born."
              - "Staying Alive" by The Bee Gees

• metaphor
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• personification

"I look at you all / See the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / I look at the floor / And I see it needs sweeping."
          - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• personification

“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag / Drifting through the wind…/ Do you know that there’s still a chance for you / ‘Cause there’s a spark in you… /"
                - "Firework" by Katy Perry

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• onomatopoeia

"How does it feel / How does it feel / To be without a home / Like a complete unknown / Like a rolling stone?"
                   - "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• metaphor

"A broom is drearily sweeping / Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life / Somewhere a queen is weeping / Somewhere a king has no wife / And the wind, it cries Mary."
                  - "The Wind it Cries Mary" by Jimi Hendrix

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification
• alliteration

"Splish, splash, I was takin' a bath / Long about a Saturday night, yeah / A rub dub, just relaxin' in the tub / Thinkin' everythin' was alright."
            - "Splish Splash" by Bobby Darin

• simile
• personification
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

"They paved paradise / And put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel, a boutique / And a swinging hot spot."
                 - "Big Yellow Taxi" by Counting Crows

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• hyperbole