Rhetorical Devices in Song Lyrics

"Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street"

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Tick! Tock! On the clock but the party don't stop"

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"You know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight"

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Little darling, it's been a long, cold, lonely winter"

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes"

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoiea

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoiea

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I think to myself, what a wonderful world"

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"My heart's a stereo; it beats for you"

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"You've got a smile that takes me to another planet"

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoiea

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"You change your mind like a girl changes clothes"

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D