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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