Figurative Language Activity

For each set of lyrics, identify the appropriate Figurative Language

Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Hyperbole, Assonance, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia

  1. ______You want a white wedding and a hand you can hold.
  2. ______The zone own Yes I’m in the zone
  3. ______The stairs creak as you sleep it’s keeping me awake
  4. ______Cookin’ MC’s like a pound of bacon!
  5. ______Caught in it washing’ it ‘bout to go and get some compliments. Passin’ up on those moccasins someone else has been rockin’ in.
  6. ______It’s the house telling you to close your eyes
  7. ______Black, black, Black and blue beat me ‘til I’m numb.
  8. ______Baby just Shout it out, Shout it out!
  9. ______They had a broken keyboard I bought a broken keyboard. I bought a skeet blanket and then I bought a kneeboard.
  10. ______Dry lightning cracks across the skies
  11. ______Some kind of Madness is swallowing me whole.
  12. ______Paint the picture of the perfect place.
  13. ______Like a sprained ankle boy I ain’t nothing to play with.
  14. ______I was putty in your hands.
  15. ______You’re my kryptonite.
  16. ______Baby you’re a firework C’mon show em what you’re worth!
  17. ______I’ve been wandering the desert for a thousand days.
  18. ______You’re holding in your hands the two halves of my heart.
  19. ______Gotta get that Boom Boom Boom.
  20. ______Said I’m so sick of love songs so sad and slow.
  21. ______My heart’s a stereo It beats for you so listen close.
  22. ______We’re like diamonds in the sky.
  23. ______My songs know what you did in the dark.
  24. ______Like when you said you felt so happy you could die.
  25. ______Now I’m feel in’ so fly, like a G6.
  26. ______If I ever did that, I think I’d have a heart attack.
  27. ______You are the thunder and I am the lightning.
  28. ______But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down the whole crowd grows so loud. He opens his mouth but the words won’t come out.
  29. ______They’ll be so sunlight if I lose you baby.
  30. ______WellI came home like a stone and fell heavy into your arms.
  31. ______I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years.
  32. ______My pride, my ego, my needs and my selfish ways caused a good woman like you to walk out of my life.
  33. ______Get them bottles poppin We get that drip and that drop.
  34. ______You’re just a cannibal and I’m afraid I won’t get out alive.
  35. ______This city never sleeps at night.

The final 5 clips will each contain TWO literary devices.

  1. ______, ______Tick tock on the clock but the party don’t stop!
  2. ______, ______Like the big bad wolf I’m born to be bad and bad to the bone.
  3. ______, ______When you smile the whole world stops and stares for a while.
  4. ______, ______It’s all bout u when the music makes you move, Baby do it like u do.
  5. ______, ______Can’t you hear that boom badoom boom boom badoom boom baby.