Figurative Language Songs

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

Fight Song by Rachel Platten

Like a small boat

On the ocean

Sending big waves

Into motion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

Boom Clap by Charlie XCX

Boom clap

The sound of my heart

the beat goes

on and on and on and on and

Boom clap

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes

My heart's a stereo

It beats for you, so listen close,

Hear my thoughts in every note

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

What about us by P!nk

We are searchlights

We can see in the dark

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

Sound of Silence by Disturbed

Hello Darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

Million Reasons by Lady Gaga

You're giving me a million

reasons to let you go

You're giving me a million

reasons to quit the show

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

Thriller by Michael Jackson

You try to scream

But terror takes the sound before you make it

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

Love you like a love song by Selena Gomez

I want you to know, baby

I love you like a love song

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

Rolling in the deep by Adele

But you played it, you played it, you played it, you played it to the beat

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is used in the following song lyrics?

Firework by Katy Perry

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

Drifting through the wind

wanting to start again?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A