Literary Terms in Popular Songs

"You want a white wedding and a hand you can hold" - Carrie Underwood

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The stairs creak as you sleep. It's keeping me awake." - Of Monsters and Men

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Cookin' MCs like a pound of bacon" - Vanilla Ice

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"It's the house telling you to close your eyes." - Of Monsters and Men

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"Black, black, black and blue. Beat me 'til I'm numb." - Bruno Mars

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Dry lightning cracks across the skies." - Carrie Underwood

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Some kind of madness is swallowing me whole." - Muse

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Caught in it, washin' it, bout to go get some compliments. Passin' up on those moccasins someone else has been rockin' in." - Macklemore

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"You're my kryptonite." - One Direction

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Like a sprained ankle, boy, I ain't nothin' to play with." - Drake

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A