Pop Songs

"We're like diamonds in the sky." - Rihanna

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I have died every day waiting for you." - Christina Perri

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"This city never sleeps at night." - Imagine Dragons

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"My songs know what you did in the dark." - Fall Out Boy

• 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

"Paint the picture of the perfect place." - One Republic

• 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

Choose the correct verb forms.

I ... (try) to call

​I ... (be) on my own for long enough

​Maybe you can show me how to love, maybe

​I'm going through withdrawals

• try, am

• am trying, am

• have tried, have been

• have been trying, have been

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4B

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

CCSS.L.K.4B

CCSS.RF.1.3F

I said, ooh, I'm blinded by the lights

​No, I can't sleep until I feel your touch

​I said, ooh, I ... (drown) in the night

​Oh, when I'm like this, you're the one I trust

​Hey, hey, hey

• drown

• am drowning

• have drowned

• have been drowning

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Identify the correct sentence structure in the context of pop song lyrics.

• The song's lyrics are catchy and repetitive.

• Catchy and repetitive the song's lyrics are.

• The lyrics catchy and repetitive are the song's.

• Repetitive and catchy are the song's lyrics.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following words is most likely to be found in a pop song about love?

• Algorithm

• Heartbreak

• Photosynthesis

• Quadrilateral

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4