WorksheetsSensory Language in Songs
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
“You, with your words like knives, and swords and weapons that you use against me” - Taylor Swift, "Mean" (Select 2)
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metaphor
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"You, with your words like knives, and swords and weapons that you use against me. You, have knocked me off my feet again, got me feeling like a nothing" - Taylor Swift, "Mean" What is the meaning?
the person is cutting her with a knife
the person is saying hurtful things to her
the person is pushing her over
"She's just a girl, and she's on fire. [She's] hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway.
She's living in a world, and it's on fire" - Alicia Keys, "Girl On Fire" (Select 2)
hyperbole
metaphor
personification
simile
"Girl tonight you look so pretty, yes you do. New York City can't shine as bright as you" - Plain White T's, "Hey There Delilah" (Select 3)
alliteration
hyperbole
idiom
imagery
"We are searchlights, we can see in the dark. We are rockets, pointed up at the stars" - Pink, "What About Us" (Select 3)
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metaphor
imagery
personification
repetition
"Hello Darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again" - Disturbed (original by Simon and Garfunkel), "The Sound of Silence"
Type one type of figurative language used in this excerpt.
(a)
"Fools," said I, "You do not know. Silence, like a cancer, grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you." But my words, like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells, of silence" - Disturbed (original by Simon and Garfunkel,) "The Sound of Silence"
What is the message?
they are comparing raindrops and silence
they are frustrated that no one is listening
they are complaining that things are too quiet
"You're giving me a million reasons to let you go. You're giving me a million
reasons to quit the show" - Lady Gaga, "Million Reasons" (Select 3)
hyperbole
metaphor
repetition
alliteration
personification
"You start to freeze as Horror looks you right between the eyes" - Michael Jackson, "Thriller" (Select 2)
personification
hyberbole
simile
metaphor
"I walk this empty street on the boulevard of broken dreams, where the city sleeps and I'm the only one, and I walk alone" - Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Select 2)
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hyperbole
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"I walk this empty street on the boulevard of broken dreams, where the city sleeps and I'm the only one, and I walk alone" - Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
All of the following could describe the mood EXCEPT?
(a)
isolated
solitary
"You start to freeze as Horror looks you right between the eyes" - Michael Jackson, "Thriller"
What word could you use to describe the mood of these lyrics?
(a)
fearless
valiant
