Identifying Literary Devices

Identify the type of figurative language being used below-

I have died everyday, waiting for you

Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• a thousand years

Identify the figurative language being used here.

How many times do I have to tell you

Even when you’re crying you’re beautiful too

The world is beating you down, I’m around through every move

-John Legend, "All of Me"

• Personification

• Repetition

• Simile

• Alliteration

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin

Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

-"Firework", Katy Perry

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

I feel glorious, glorious

Got a chance to start again

I was born for this, born for this

It's who I am, how could I forget?

-Macklemore, "Glorious"

• Repetition

• Imagery

• Rhyme

• Metaphor

I like that boom boom pow

Them chickens jackin' my style

-The Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow"

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

• Simile

• Assonance

Hey, diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon;

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

-"Hey Diddle, Diddle" nursery rhyme

• Alliteration

• Symbolism

• Metaphor

• Personification

Last night, while I lay thinking here,

Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear

And pranced and partied all night long

And sang their same old Whatif song:

Whatif I’m dumb in school?

Whatif they’ve closed the swimming pool?

Whatif I get beat up?

Whatif there’s poison in my cup?

Whatif I start to cry?

-"Whatif" by Shel Silverstein

• Onomatopoeia and Personification

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Personification and Repetition

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

-"The Sound of Silence", Simon and Garfunkel

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch

You really are a heel

You're as cuddly as a cactus

You're as charming as an eel

-"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"

• Simile and personification

• Metaphor and symbolism

• Hyperbole and imagery

• Simile and Metaphor

And I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears

So done with wishing you were still here

Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow

So why can't I turn off the radio?

-Ne-Yo, "So Sick"

• Alliteration

• Metphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia