Figurative Language in Songs

Boom Boom Pow

• Idiom

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Life is a highway; I'm going to ride it all night long!"

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Baby now we've got bad blood"

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof!"

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

"Baby, you're a firework!"

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"We must be swift as the coursing river!"

• pun

• simile

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"You know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight."

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What does the simile mean?

"You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me."

• To show that she was attacked.

• To show that words hurt.

• To show that she is violent.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a simile?

• an exaggeration

• giving human qualities to an inanimate thing

• comparison using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is hyperbole?

• an exaggeration to emphasize something

• a comparison between two things

• a common phrase that together means more than what each word means on its own

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A