Song figurative language examples by Ms. Pierce

Pat Traver

piercec2 — 2024-12-09 15:29:04 UTC

BOOM BOOM out go the lights

Onamonapeia

Nelly Furtado

2024-12-09 15:34:11 UTC

"My heart is like a bird, it wants to fly away"

simile

Drake

2024-12-09 15:34:17 UTC

Last name ever, First name greatest

Still by Dove Cameron

therealfriendlypotato1 — 2024-12-09 15:34:28 UTC

Radio is always playing, high-speed train is hydroplaning
Bubble-wrap the heart in plastic, the question we're scared of asking

Supernova self-erasing, hourglass is always draining
Is the rope of time elastic? The question we're scared of asking

metaphors

Mitski

2024-12-09 15:34:32 UTC

"I bet on losing dogs"

Metaphor

Anna Nalick

2024-12-09 15:34:33 UTC

"Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out"

Simile

Kanye West

2024-12-09 15:34:35 UTC

How could you be so, cold as the winter wind when it breeze, yo- Metaphor: comparing the way the girl acted to the coldness of the winter breeeze.

Juice wrld

2024-12-09 15:34:54 UTC

You use my past and my memories as a weapon similie

The real her by drake "live for today plan for tomorrow party tonight " is an example of figurative language such as simile

trafficdemonsamuel — 2024-12-09 15:35:04 UTC

KSI

2024-12-09 15:35:27 UTC

I'm in the thick of it

Idiom

Sabrina Carpenter

2024-12-09 15:35:35 UTC

"Cartwheels in my stomach" Metaphor

flawless by Yeat

2024-12-09 15:35:45 UTC

"Money on my Kool-Aid, that mean my money sweet" is a figurative language of metaphor

Bruno Mars

2024-12-09 15:36:04 UTC

"Her eyes, make the stars look like they're not shining". Simile. He is comparing 2 unlike things using the word "like".

Thinking 'Bout You - Frank Ocean

2024-12-09 15:36:35 UTC

"A tornado flew around my room before you came in", metaphor.

Drake

2024-12-09 15:36:36 UTC

"Last name ever, first name Greatest" is a metaphor

Let it Snow! -Dean Martin

2024-12-09 15:36:44 UTC

"The fire is burning bright" - Metaphor

XCX Charlie

2024-12-09 15:36:53 UTC

"Boom clap the sound of my heart" -oniomania

-fatuma

Tyler The Creator

2024-12-09 15:37:42 UTC

"Do I look like him"

Simili- asking his mother if he compares to his father.

Don Mclean

2024-12-09 15:37:58 UTC

And while Lennin read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died

Metaphor

Billie Ellish

2024-12-09 15:38:17 UTC

Just something you paid for Personification

Simon and Garfunkel

2024-12-09 15:38:59 UTC

"I am a rock, I am an island like a rock feels no pain

Simile

Carbon fiber music

2024-12-09 15:39:00 UTC

Even the baddest cry sometimes
Inside the fish tank, they're all fish
Outside, sharks growl
There's no identity, they all look alike Metaphor

Frozen

2024-12-09 15:39:05 UTC

Let it go, let it go

Metaphor

William Shakespeare

2024-12-09 15:39:30 UTC

"The world is a stage, and we are merely players"

Metaphor!

-victor

Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens <3

therealfriendlypotato1 — 2024-12-09 15:42:58 UTC

The evil it spread like a fever ahead

simile

Drake

2024-12-09 15:44:56 UTC

“You can have my heart, or we can share it like the last slice”. he is referring to his heart as a slice of pizza

simile

Click Click Boom

2024-12-09 15:45:14 UTC

Song by Saliva

onomatopoeia - mason r

Drake fancy

2024-12-09 15:49:08 UTC

she was fine like a ticket on the dash

simile

comparing the girl to a ticket

billie eilish "what was I made for"

2024-12-09 15:52:39 UTC

"I used to float, now I just fall down"

metaphor