Sensory Language in Songs

“You, with your words like knives, and swords and weapons that you use against me” - Taylor Swift, "Mean" (Select 2)

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

"You, with your words like knives, and swords and weapons that you use against me. You, have knocked me off my feet again, got me feeling like a nothing" - Taylor Swift, "Mean" What is the meaning?

• the person is cutting her with a knife

• the person is saying hurtful things to her

• the person is pushing her over

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"She's just a girl, and she's on fire. [She's] hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway.

She's living in a world, and it's on fire" - Alicia Keys, "Girl On Fire" (Select 2)

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Girl tonight you look so pretty, yes you do. New York City can't shine as bright as you" - Plain White T's, "Hey There Delilah" (Select 3)

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• idiom

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"We are searchlights, we can see in the dark. We are rockets, pointed up at the stars" - Pink, "What About Us" (Select 3)

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Hello Darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again" - Disturbed (original by Simon and Garfunkel), "The Sound of Silence"

Type one type of figurative language used in this excerpt.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

"Fools," said I, "You do not know. Silence, like a cancer, grows.

Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you." But my words, like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells, of silence" - Disturbed (original by Simon and Garfunkel,) "The Sound of Silence"

What is the message?

• they are comparing raindrops and silence

• they are frustrated that no one is listening

• they are complaining that things are too quiet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

"You're giving me a million reasons to let you go. You're giving me a million

reasons to quit the show" - Lady Gaga, "Million Reasons" (Select 3)

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• repetition

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

"You start to freeze as Horror looks you right between the eyes" - Michael Jackson, "Thriller" (Select 2)

• personification

• hyberbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I walk this empty street on the boulevard of broken dreams, where the city sleeps and I'm the only one, and I walk alone" - Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Select 2)

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5