Examples of figurative language: SONG

Examples of figurative language:

Onomotopia: Crash - Dave Matthews

Metaphor: Like I Love You- Rio

Simile: Iris: Goo Goo Dolls

Rhyme: Super Bass- Nicki Minaj

·      This one is for the boys with the booming system

Top down, AC with the cooling system

When he come up in the club, he be blazin' up

Got stacks on deck like he savin' up

Personification: dynamite- Taio Cruz

·      Cause we going to light it up. Likes it dynamite

Repetion: Baby- Justin Bieber

·      Cause I’m like baby, baby, baby oh

Hyperbole: Hound dog- Elvis

·      You aint nothing but a hound dog

Alliteration: Rock’n Robin- Jackson 5

·      Better be a better boy before you bother

Betting that you'll bring her back home again.

Try to treat her like you treat a tender lady.

Tell her truthfully that you'll make amends.

She'll be upset for a while.

But you can win with the smile.

Assonance: Eminem- Lose yourself (chorus)

·      You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

(You better)

Imagery: Strawberry Fields: Beatles:

·      Picture yourself in a boat on a river

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green

Towering over your head

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes

And she's gone

Allusion: Young American- David Bowie

·      "Do you remember, your President Nixon?"

Allegory: Fly- Nicki Minaj

·      I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive
I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise
To fly
To fly

Understatement: It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)- R.E.M.

Irony: Love Stinks- Adam Sandler

Apostrophe: No Love- lil Wayne and Eminem

·      its the meaning that the song is about someone who has left him and is singing