Figurative Language in Songs

"Go on, dust your shoulders off, keep it moving"
-Lizzo

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• idiom

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

giving human characteristics to non-human things

• personification

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect; understatement

• hyperbole

• meiosis

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"I've been burnin' rubber on the Michelin; Flyin' in the rain like I'm Superman; I could say I love it but that just depends"
-Khalid

• alliteration

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words

• allusion

• metaphor

• repetition

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away"
-Nelly Furtado

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• meiosis

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole

• personification

• simile

• idiom

• meiosis

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A comparison of two things without using the words "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4