Figurative Language with the Mastermind

"Salt in the wound like you're laughing right at me"

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

So CASUALLY CRUEL in the name of being honest

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I ask the traffic lights if it'll be alright; they say I don't know

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Your heart was glass, I dropped it

Champagne problems

• allusion

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Your MIDAS touch on the Chevy door

November flush and your flannel cure

• allusion

• simile

• pun

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

And there we are again when nobody had to know You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath

• simile

• allusion

• personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

• onomatopoeia

• cliche

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I swear I don't love the drama, it loves me

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

You and I walk a fragile line

I have known it all this time

But I never thought I'd live to see it break

• oxymoron

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This is the first time I’ve felt the need to confess

And I swear I’m only cryptic and MACHIAVELLIAN ’cause I care

• allusion

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4