BY: MS. OLSEN

Literary Devices in Song Lyrics.Vocabulary 5-13Test this Friday, October 18, 2013

Holding you I held everything.For a moment wasn't I a king?But if I'd only known how theking would fall… Hey, who's to say?You know I might have changed it all.And now I'm glad I didn't knowthe way It all would end, the way it all would go.

Hyperbole: extreme exaggerationHolding you I held everything.For a moment wasn't I a king?But if I'd only known how theking would fall… Hey, who's to say?You know I might have changed it all.And now I'm glad I didn't knowthe way it all would end, the way it all would go. The Dance sung by Garth Brooks

A winter's dayin a deep and dark December;I am alone,gazing from my window to the streets belowon a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.I am a rock.I am an island.

Metaphor: comparing two unlike things. A winter's dayin a deep and dark December;I am alone,gazing from my window to the streets belowon a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.I am a rock.I am an island.

I am an Island; Simon and Garfunkel

Do you ever feel like a plastic bagDrifting through the wind, wanting to start again?Do you ever feel, feel so paper thinLike a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

Simile: Indirect comparison of two unlike things using like,

as, seems, or than.

Do you ever feel like a plastic bagDrifting through the wind, wanting to start again?Do you ever feel, feel so paper thinLike a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

Katy Perry, Firework

With them moves like JaggerI've got the moves like JaggerI've got the moves like Jagger

Simile: Indirect comparison of two unlike things using like, as, seems, or than.

With them moves like JaggerI've got the moves like JaggerI've got the moves like Jagger

Moves like Jagger, Maroon 5

Life is a highway, I wanna ride itAll night longIf you're going my way, I wanna drive itAll night long

*Metaphor: a direct comparison of two unlike things.

*Dialect: “wanna” Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

All night longIf you're going my way, I wanna drive itAll night long

Life is a Highway, Rascal Flatts

And the sun will set for youThe sun will set for youAnd the shadow of the dayWill embrace the world in greyAnd the sun will set for you

Personification: Giving human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object.

And the sun will set for youThe sun will set for youAnd the shadow of the dayWill embrace the world in greyAnd the sun will set for you

The Shadow of the Day, Linkin Park

Remember those walls I builtWell, baby they're tumbling downAnd they didn't even put up a fightThey didn't even make a sound

Personification…do walls really fight?

Remember those walls I builtWell, baby they're tumbling downAnd they didn't even put up a fightThey didn't even make a sound

Halo by Beyonce

They reach into your roomJust feel their gentle touch

When all hope is goneYou know sad songs say so much

Personification: do songs touch and

talk?

Alliteration: repetition of initial sounds

They reach into your roomJust feel their gentle touchWhen all hope is goneYou know sad songs say so much

Sad Songs; Elton John

I'd catch a grenade for yaThrow my hand on a blade for yaI'd jump in front of a train for yaYou know I'd do anything for yaI would go through all this painTake a bullet straight through my brain

Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration.Dialect: “ya”

I'd catch a grenade for yaThrow my hand on a blade for yaI'd jump in front of a train for yaYou know I'd do anything for yaI would go through all this painTake a bullet straight through my brain

Grenade. Bruno Mars

You know Dasher, and Dancer, andPrancer, and Vixen..Comet, and Cupid, andDonner and Blitzen..But do you recall...?The most famous reindeer of allRudolph, the red-nosed reindeer

Alliteration: Repetition of initial sounds

You know Dasher, and Dancer, andPrancer, and Vixen..Comet, and Cupid, andDonner and Blitzen..But do you recall...?The most famous reindeer of all(music break)Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer

When I was fourteen I was falling fastFor a blue eyed girl in my homeroom classTrying to find the courage to ask her outWas like trying to get oil from a waterspout

Simile: Indirect comparison or two unlike things using like, as, seems, or than.

When I was fourteen I was falling fastFor a blue eyed girl in my homeroom classTrying to find the courage to ask her outWas like trying to get oil from a waterspout

Life’s a Dance, John Michael Montgomery

I'm so 3008You so 2000 and lateI got that boom, boom, boomThat future boom, boom, boomLet me get it now

Onomatopoeia: when a word sounds like what it is.

I'm so 3008You so 2000 and lateI got that boom, boom, boomThat future boom, boom, boomLet me get it now

Boom, Boom: The Black Eyed Peas

Life's a dance you learn as you goSometimes you lead, sometimes you followDon't worry about what you don't knowLife's a dance you learn as you go

Metaphor: a direct comparison of two unlike things

Life's a dance you learn as you goSometimes you lead, sometimes you followDon't worry about what you don't knowLife's a dance you learn as you go

Life’s a Dance, John Michael Montgomery

Love baby, that's where it's at)Bang, bang, bang, on the door, baby(Knock a little louder baby)Bang bang bang,on the door, baby(I can't hear you)Bang bang bang, on the door, baby(Knock a little louder sugar)

Onomatopoeia: when a word sounds like what it is.

Love baby, that's where it's at)Bang, bang, bang, on the door, baby(Knock a little louder baby)Bang, bang, bang, on the door, baby(I can't hear you)Bang, bang, bang, on the door, baby(Knock a little louder sugar)

Love Shack: B-52’s

Picture yourself in a boat on a riverWith tangerine trees and marmalade skiesSomebody calls you, you answer quite slowlyA girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Imagery: visual

Picture yourself in a boat on a riverWith tangerine trees and marmalade skiesSomebody calls you, you answer quite slowlyA girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamonds. John Lennon

I tried to catch my balance but I was supposed to fall It seems that spilling coffee was no accident at all 'Cause you're here right now, sitting on my couch Funny how it all works out

Imagery: Kinetic-showing us how something moves. Visual- we can all picture witting on our couch.

I tried to catch my balance but I was supposed to fall It seems that spilling coffee was no accident at all 'Cause you're here right now, sitting on my couch Funny how it all works out

Touch: Natasha Bedingfield

Sweet Miss Betty likes to sing off key In the pew behind me

That's what I love about Sunday Sing along as the choir sways Every verse of Amazin' Grace And then we shake the Preacher's handThat's what I love about SundayGo home, into your blue jeans Have some chicken and some baked beans

Cat-napping on the porch swing You curled up next to me The smell of jasmine wakes us up

Sweet Miss Betty likes to sing off key In the pew behind me

That's what I love about Sunday Sing along as the choir sways Every verse of Amazin' Grace And then we shake the Preacher's handThat's what I love about SundayGo home, into your blue jeans Have some chicken and some baked beans

Cat-napping on the porch swing You curled up next to me The smell of jasmine wakes us up

Aural Imagery

Aural and Kinetic Imagery

Dialect

Visual and Kinetic Imagery

Gustatory Imagery

Olfactory Imagery

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