Literary Devices

Like a small boat

On the ocean

Sending big waves

Into motion

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Boom clap

The sound of my heart

the beat goes

on and on and on and on and

Boom clap

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

My heart's a stereo

It beats for you, so listen close,

Hear my thoughts in every note

• Metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

We are searchlights

We can see in the dark

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

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

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

You're giving me a million

reasons to let you go

You're giving me a million

reasons to quit the show

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I got that sunshine in my pocket

Got that good soul in my feet

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

You try to scream

But terror takes the sound before you make it

• simile

• personification

• symbolism

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

All that I know is gone

All that I know is gone

Fall deeper and deeper,

the sirens are singing your songs.

• Metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

'Cause I am a champion

You're gonna hear me roar

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4