Figurative Language and Nuances

"clap along if you feel like a room without a roof"

-Pharrell Williams

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Imagery

"You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath"

-Eminem ft. Rhiana

• Irony

• Idiom

• Symbol

• Imagery

"And rain falls angry on the tin roof as we lie awake in my bed"

-Edward McCain

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• None of these

"came up, that's all me

stay true, that's all me

no help, that's all me"

-Drake

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopeia

• Refrain

• Imagery

"mark my words - this love will make you levitate, like a bird, like a bird without a cage"

-Katy Perry

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Imagery

• Personification

"Funny the way it is, if you think about it....one kid walks 10 miles to school, and another's dropping out."

-Dave Matthews

• Hyperbole

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Irony

Poetry is written in......

• Verse

• Prose

• Stanzas

• Paragraphs

Novels and short stories are written in.......

• Verse

• Prose

• Stanzas

• Paragraphs

"Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart"

-Michael Jackson

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Personification

"Then I stepped into a satin dancin' dress that had a split in the side clean up to my hip. It was red velvet trim and it fit me good."

-Reba McEntire

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion