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Song Lyrics featuring Figurative Language

Terms in this set (36)

Alliteration
"This time, This place
Misused, Mistakes
Too long, Too late"

"Far Away"
by Nickelback
Simile
"She's like a song played again and again"

"Replay"
by Sean Kingston
Personification
"You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes"

"Thriller"
by Michael Jackson
Hyperbole
"You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep"

"Fireflies"
by Owl City
Onomatopoeia
"Tick! Tock! on the clock
but the party don't stop"

"Tik Tok"
by Ke$sha
Simile
"Steady as a preacher
Free as a weed"

"American Honey"
by Lady Antebellum
Hyperbole
"Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could just see you
Tonight"

"A Thousand Miles"
by Vanessa Carlton
Alliteration
"Can you imagine no first
dance, freeze dried
romance, five-hour phone
conversation"

"Drops of Jupiter"
by Train
Simile
" You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed, sing like a bird
Dizzy in my head, spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night"

"Simile"
by Uncle Kracker
Alliteration
"You see the hate
that they servin' on a platter
So what we gonna have,
dessert or disaster?"

"Knock You Down"
by Keri Hilson
Metaphor
"That you were Romeo
You were throwing pebbles
And my dad said
Stay away from Juliet"

"Love Story"
by Taylor Swift
Simile
"Smooth as a hickory wind
That blow from Memphis
Down to Apalachicola"

Southern Voice
by Tim McGraw
Alliteration
"Imagine a dirt road full of
potholes, with a creek bank
and some cane poles
catching channel cat"

"A Little More Country Than That"
by Easton Corbin
Simile
"The truth comes out a little at a time
And it spreads just like a fire
Slips off of your tongue
like turpentine"

"White Liar"
by Miranda Lambert
Onomatopoeia
"I got that boom, boom, boom
That future boom, boom, boom"

"Boom Boom Pow"
by The Black Eyed Peas
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