Onomatopeia
“How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night!”- Edgar Allen Poe
“Hark, hark! Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark! Bow wow. Hark, hark!” -William Shakespeare
The ball soars through the air. Then, bounce, bounce, bounce. The audience holds its breath.
“Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof, woof, woof!” -The Baha Men
“I get a feeling in my heart that I can't describe. . .It's sort of whack, whir, wheeze, whine, Sputter, splat, squirt, scrape, Clink, clank, clunk, clatter, Crash, bang, beep, buzz, Ring, rip, roar, retch, Twang, toot, tinkle, thud, Pop, plop, plunk, pow”
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time you let it through-ooh-ooh- Katy Perry
Hyperbole
"You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep"- Owl City
“THIS WAS THE EASIEST TEST IN THE WORLD!”
Everybody knows that!
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
My mom is going to kill me!
“I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more, just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles to fall down at your door.” - The Proclaimers
“And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while.” -Bruno Mars
“There’s enough food in the cupboard to feed an entire army!”
Simile
She was as cool as a cucumber under pressure.
I turned as white as a ghost when you jumped out at me.
“New money, suit and tie, I can read you like a magazine”- Taylor Swift
“I’m like a bird, I’ll only fly away”- Nelly Furtado
“Now I’m floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee I earned my stripes” -Katy Perry
“The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside, couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried”- Idina Menzel
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag,
Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? -Katy Perry
Metaphor
I couldn't run, my legs were jelly.
“. . .he’s candy-coated misery, he’s a devil in disguise, a snake with blue eyes” -Carrie Underwood
You are the thunder, and I am the lightning- Selena Gomez
My brother is a couch potato.
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog
Quit snoopin’ ’round my door
You can wag your tail
But I ain’t gonna feed you no more- Elvis
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won’t fall
I am titanium- David guetta
With all the force of a great typhoon
Be a man
With all the strength of a raging fire -Mulan
Personification
“You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes”- Michael Jackson
Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.
No sun will shine in my day today,The high yellow moon won’t come out to play -Bob Marley
The candle flame danced in the dark.
'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs, from ten thousand lightning bugs.- Owl City
Idiom
“I got the eye of the tiger”. -Katy Perry
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
“Is tonight your big performance? Break a leg!”
The grass is always greener on the other side.
Looking for something crazy
beautiful nothing
now I’m talking in circles again- Lady Gaga
“Cause, baby, now we got bad blood. You know it used to be mad love.”- Taylor Swift
"Knock it off."
I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off” -Taylor Swift