Lyrics
Film and TV
Poetry Lines
Advertisements and Media
100
"Cause you were Romeo I was a scarlet letter"
Love Story, Taylor Swift (2 possible answers)
Metaphor or Symbol (Both Correct)
Taylor is comparing her lover to Romeo from Shakespeare, as well as calling her self a "Scarlett Letter", a symbol for Public Shame
100
The Matrix (2 possible answers)
Metaphor / Symbolism
Symbolism:The Pills stand for choosing between reality vs illusion and are symbolic.
Metaphor: Morpheus compares waking up to reality as continuing the story in wonderland and going down the "rabbit hole" as finding the truth out.
100
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.”
Emily Dickson, Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Metaphor
This line compares hope to a bird that metaphorically sits in someones soul.
100
Red Bull
Metaphor
Comparing the feeling of energy you get from red bull to what it would feel like to fly
200
Thunder, feel the thunder / Lightning and the thunder"
Thunder, Imagine Dragons
Repetition
Repeated word "Thunder" for emphasis
200
The Titanic (2 possible answers)
Hyperbole / Irony
Hyperbole: Jack exaggerates his power
Irony: the ship will eventually sink despite the feeling of power, he is powerless
200
“The wind stood up and gave a shout.”
Robert Frost, "Wind and Window Flower"
Personification
Gives human emotion to the wind
200
State Farm
Simile
Comparing the insurance company to treat you as well as your neighbour using "like"
300
"Time can never mend / The careless whispers of a good friend"
Careless Whisper, George Micheal
Personification
"Time" is given the ability to heal (mend) or not.
300
The Office
Pun
Micheal shortens the word "Superstitious" to "Stitious" creating word play to have a simular yet different meaning than the original term
300
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
William Shakespear, "Romeo and Juilet"
Oxymoron
Sweet sorrow is two contradicting ideas
300
KitKat
Pun
you break a kit kat, but also the double meaning being that you also take a break in your day to eat one
400
" My Grannie Called, she said, Travvy you work to hard / I'm worried you forget about me "
90210, Travis Scott
Allusion
Travis is alluding to His family and the generational value of respecting and caring for ones elders
400
Friends
Paradox
"It sucks, you're gonna love it". two seemingly contradictory statements meant to reveal an unexpected truth
400
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing.”
Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"
Alliteration
Repeats the same beginning consonant sounds
400
M&M
Personification
M&M gives human Characteristics to their product
500
"Imma Need some Whiskey Glasses / Cause I don't want to see the truth"
Whiskey Glasses, Morgan Wallen (3 possible answers)
Symbolism /Metaphor/ Irony
Whiskey Glasses - symbol for emotional avoidance, escape. Ironic because usually glasses help you see, but in this case it is to avoid seeing. Needing "whiskey Glasses" is a metaphor for Drinking alcohol.
500
Peanuts: a Charlie Brown Valentines
Oxymoron
Good Grief - a combination of two words that seem to contradict each other.
500
"The Hand that mocked them and the Heart that Fed"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias.”
Synecdoche
Hand and heart are parts that stand in for whole people
500
Charmin
Euphemism
“Go” replaces direct reference to bodily function in a funny manner, softening something uncomfortable.