Valentine's Day Figurative Language Review

"You were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles, and my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet" - "Love Story" by Taylor Swift

• allusion
• oxymoron
• personification
• pun
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Sixty-million-dollar home, never went home to it, genius gone clueless, it's a whole lot to risk" - "Hurricane" by Kanye West + The Weeknd

• hyperbole
• oxymoron
• allusion
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Every time you smile I get a little bit closer to the sky" - "Walk Through the Fire" - Yung Bleu + Ne-Yo

• personification
• pun
• allusion
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

"He was sunshine I was midnight rain, He wanted it comfortable I wanted that pain" - "Midnight Rain" by Taylor Swift

• oxymoron
• personification
• allusion
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"Every time you go it's like a knife that cuts right to my soul" - "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" by Paloma Faith

• pun
• oxymoron
• simile
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

"We're yelling and screaming it's off the wall, words that we're going to regret" - All of It All" by Lukas Graham

• alliteration
• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Bang, bang, there goes your heart" - "Bang Bang" by Ariana Grande

• metaphor
• personification
• oxymoron
• pun
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

"Girl you sweet like Fanta" - "Calm Down" by Rema

• metaphor
• pun
• oxymoron
• simile
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

"If you be the cash, I'll be the rubberband, you the match, I will be a fuse, boom" - "Sure Thing" by Miguel

• allusion
• personification
• metaphor
• oxymoron
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"I can't see 'em comin' down my eyes so I gotta make the song cry" - "Song Cry" by Jay-Z

• simile
• metaphor
• pun
• allusion
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4