WorksheetsFigurative Language in Songs
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 16mins
"Get my pretty name out of your mouth"
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Idiom
Simlie
"Holdin' me backGravity's holdin' me back I want you to hold out the palm of your hand Why don't we leave it at that?"
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
"Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneaking in As if you were a mythical thing Like you were a trophy or a champion ring And there was one prize I'd cheat to win"
Alitteration
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
I got me a car, it’s as big as a whale And we’re headin’ on down to the Love Shack I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20 So hurry up and bring your jukebox money
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
"Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality"
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor
One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Personification
Simile
I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine I got a love and I know that it’s all mine Oh, oh, oh oh Do what you want but you’re never gonna Break me Sticks and stones are never gonna shake Me, oh, oh oh oh
Personification
Idiom
Symbolism
Alliteration
"I’m never gonna dance again Guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it’s easy to pretend. I know you’re not a fool……Time can never mend The careless whisper of a good friend"
Personification
Oxymoron
Allusion
Simile
Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence
Oxymoron
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
She is like a cat in the dark And then she is to darkness She rules her life like a fine skylark And when the sky is starless All your life you've never seen Woman taken by the wind Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Alliteration
Idiom
"Clang, clang, clang went the trolley
Ding, ding, ding went the bell
Zing, zing, zing went my heart strings
From the moment I saw him I fell"
Allusion
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Personification
"When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown 'em out"
Denotation
Personification
Irony
Symbolism
"Stars In your multitudes Scarce to be counted Filling the darkness With order and light! You are the sentine ls Silent and sure Keeping watch in the night Keeping watch in the night"
Alliteration
Irony
Personification
Denotation
Like a comet pulled from orbit As it passes a sun Like a stream that meets a boulder Halfway through the wood Who can say if I've been changed for the better? But Because I knew you I have been changed for good
Alliteration
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
She said, you've married an Icarus
He has flown too close to the sun
Simile
Imagery
Allusion
Alliteration
Cast off the shackles of yesterday!
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters' daughters will adore us
And they'll sing in grateful chorus
"Well done, Sister Suffragette!"
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Alliteration
Personification
Raindrops on roses And whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things
Alliteration
Idiom
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
So you're a tough guy
Like it really rough guy
Just can't get enough guy
Chest always so puffed guy
I'm that bad type
Aliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
“As they tried to teach me how to dance A foxtrot above my head A sock hop beneath my bed.”
Personification
Imagery
Alliteration
Simile
