POP
“Boom, pop! The sound of my heart”
This is an example from Charlie XCX.
Onomatopoeia
“I’m heading down that long lonesome road.” This is an example from Bob Dylan.
Alliteration
“My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around” This is an example from the movie Frozen.
Alliteration
“For the holidays you can’t beat home sweet home.” This is an example from the song Home for the Holidays.
Alliteration
“Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine” This is an example from ABBA.
Assonance
“I’ve lost my mind, I’ve spent the night crying on the floor of my bathroom”
This is an example from Olivia Rodrigo.
Assonance
“The other day I hooked a monster.” This song lyric example about fishing is from Thomas Rhett.
Hyperbole
“You find the fun, and snap, the job’s a game!” This example is from the movie “Mary Poppins”.
Onomatopoeia
“I played my drum for him, Pa rum pum pum pum, I played my best for him, Pa rum pum pum pum.” This is an example from Little Drummer Boy.
Onomatopoeia
Daily Double
"I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky" This provides two examples from Queen.
“Wrote some songs about Ricky, now I listen and laugh” This is an example from Ariana Grande.
Alliteration
“Yeah we’re fancy like Applebee’s on a date night.” This is an example from Walker Hayes.
Simile
“When I was a lad I ate 4 dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. Now that I’m grown I eat 5 dozen eggs, so I’m roughly the size of a barge.” This is sung by Gaston.
Hyperbole
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose, and if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows (like a lightbulb).” This is an example from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Simile
“And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” This is an example from Louis Armstrong.
Alliteration
“With your hair falling into place like dominos” This is an example from Taylor Swift.
Simile
“Life is a highway.” This is an example from Rascal Flatts.
Metaphor
“Love is an open door.” This is an example from the movie “Frozen”
Metaphor
“Just hear those sleigh bells jingle-ing, ring-ting, tingle-ing, too.” This is an example from the song Sleigh Ride.
Assonance
“Nothing really matters, anyone can see.” This is an example from Queen
Assonance
“I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here” This is an example from Taylor Swift.
Metaphor
“Saying I don’t know would be like saying that the sky ain’t blue.” This is an example from Kacey Musgraves.
Simile
“Tranquil as a forest”. Li-Shang sings these words as an expectation he has while he prepares his troops to fight the Hun.
Simile
“Jack Frost nipping at your nose” This is an example of devices from the song “The Christmas Song” by Nat King Cole
Personification or Idiom
“Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night.” Fleetwood Mac provides this example when singing ‘Rhiannon’. (Rhiannon is a woman who is a character in the song)
Simile