Figurative Language in Songs

When we were younger and free,
I've forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet." Is an example of...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

He keeps on forgetting what he wrote down. The whole crowd grows so loud. He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out. - Eminem

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Hello from the other side
I must have called a thousand times.
Is an example of...

• hyperbole

• symbols

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

What technique is Lewis Capaldi using here?

So, before you go

Was there something I could've said to make your heart beat better?

If only I'd have known you had a storm to weather

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

Hello Darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

When we were younger and free

I've forgotten how it felt

Before the world fell at our feet

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

I'd catch a grenade for ya; I'd throw my head on a blade for ya; I'd jump in front of a train for ya

• simile

• metaphor

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Answer explanation

he repeats "for ya" over and over (hyperbole would also have been a correct answer)

When we were younger and free

I've forgotten how it felt

Before the world fell at our feet

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Remember when we couldn't take the heat
I walked out, I said, I'm setting you free
But the monsters turned out to be just trees
When the sun came up
You were looking at me."
Is an example of...

• cliche

• alliteration

• simile

• imagery

You sharp like barbed wire
She stole my heart, then she got archived
I kept it short with her, Lord Farquaad

Match each phrase in these lyrics with the correct figurative language term.

• I kept it short with her

• Pun

• You sharp like barbed wire

• Simile

• Lord Farquaad

• Allusion

• She stole my heart

• Idiom