2021 Song Poetry
Find the figurative language in Dua Lipa's 'Levitating' (Stop at 0:32)
If you wanna run away with me, I know a galaxy
And I can take you for a ride
I had a premonition that we fell into a rhythm
Where the music don't stop for life
Glitter in the sky, glitter in my eyes
Shining just the way I like
If you're feeling like you need a little bit of company
You met me at the perfect time
You want me, I want you, baby
My sugarboo, I'm levitating
The Milky Way, we're renegading
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Personification and Hyperbole
Find the figurative language in Alicia Keys 'Girl on Fire' (Stop at 1:02)
She's just a girl and she's on fire
Hotter than a fantasy, lonely like a highway
She's living in a world and it's on fire
Filled with catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away
Oh, oh oh oh oh
She got both feet on the ground
And she's burning it down
Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh
She got her head in the clouds
And she's not backing down
This girl is on fire
This girl is on fire
She's walking on fire
This girl is on fire
Hyperbole and Repetition
Find the figurative language in Lil Nas X's 'MONTERO' (Stop at 0:16)
I caught it bad yesterday
You hit me with a call to your place
Ain't been out in a while anyway
Was hopin' I could catch you throwin' smiles in my face
Personification
Find the figurative language in Smash Mouth's 'All Star' (Stop at 0:18)
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her forehead
Personification
Find the figurative language in Melanie Martinez's 'Cake' (Stop at 0:37)
Your skin is warm like an oven,
Your kiss is sugary sweet
Your fingers feel like cotton when you put your arms around me
I feel like I'm just missing something whenever you leave
You've got all the ingredients
Except you loving me
Similies and Metaphors
Find the figurative language in Britney Spear's 'Gimme More' (Start at 0:45)
Cameras are flashin' while we're dirty dancin'
They keep watching (they keep watching)
Keep watching
Feels like the crowd is saying
Gimme, gimme (more)
Gimme (more)
Gimme, gimme (more)
Gimme, gimme (more)
Gimme (more)
Gimme, gimme (more)
Repition and Alliteration
Find the figurative language in Maneskin's 'I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE' (Stop at 0:15)
I wanna be your slave
I wanna be your master
I wanna make your heart beat
Run like rollercoasters
I wanna be a good boy
I wanna be a gangster
'Cause you can be the beauty
And I could be the monster
Metaphor and irony
Find the figurative language in Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream' (Stop at 0:19)
You think I'm pretty without any makeup on
You think I'm funny when I tell the punch line wrong
I know you get me, so I let my walls come down, down
Before you met me
Personification
Find the figurative language in The Kid LAROI's 'WITHOUT YOU' (Stop at 0:31)
You cut out a piece of me, and now I bleed internally
Left here without you (no, no, no), without you (ooh)
And it hurts for me to think about what life could possibly be like
Without you (no, no, no), without you (no, no)
Hyperbole
Find the figurative language in Rihanna's 'Only Girl' (Stop at 1:02)
La-la-la la
La-la-la la
La-la-la la (uh, yeah)
La-la-la-la
I want you to love me
Like I'm a hot ride (uh, yeah)
Be thinkin' of me (uh)
Doin' what you like
So, boy, forget about the world
'Cause it's gon' be me and you tonight (yeah)
I wanna make you beg for it
Then I'ma make you swallow your pride, oh (uh, uh)
Want you to make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world
Like I'm the only one that you'll ever love
Like I'm the only one who knows your heart
Only girl in the world
Hyperbole