Pop Songs

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• personification

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

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• personification

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

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• personification

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

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

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.

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

• Algorithm

• Heartbreak

• Photosynthesis

• Quadrilateral