1. By: Ms. Olsen Literary Devices in Song Lyrics. Vocabulary 5-13
Test this Friday, October 18, 2013
By: Ms. Olsen

2. Holding you I held everything. For a moment wasn't I a king
Holding you I held everything. For a moment wasn't I a king? But if I'd only known how the king would fall… Hey, who's to say? You know I might have changed it all. And now I'm glad I didn't know the way It all would end, the way it all would go.

3. Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration
Holding you I held everything. For a moment wasn't I a king? But if I'd only known how the king would fall… Hey, who's to say? You know I might have changed it all. And now I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. The Dance sung by Garth Brooks

4. A winter's day in a deep and dark December; I am alone, gazing from my window to the streets below on a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock. I am an island.

5. Metaphor: comparing two unlike things.
A winter's day
in a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
gazing from my window to the streets below
on a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock.
I am an island.
I am an Island; Simon and Garfunkel

6. Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

7. Simile: Indirect comparison of two unlike things using like, as, seems, or than.
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in? Katy Perry, Firework

8. With them moves like Jagger I've got the moves like Jagger I've got the moves like Jagger

9. Simile: Indirect comparison of two unlike things using like, as, seems, or than.
With them moves like Jagger I've got the moves like Jagger I've got the moves like Jagger
Moves like Jagger, Maroon 5

10. Life is a highway, I wanna ride it All night long If you're going my way, I wanna drive it All night long

11. *Metaphor: a direct comparison of two unlike things. *Dialect: “wanna”
Life is a highway, I wanna ride it All night long If you're going my way, I wanna drive it All night long Life is a Highway, Rascal Flatts

12. And the sun will set for you The sun will set for you And the shadow of the day Will embrace the world in grey And the sun will set for you

13. Personification: Giving human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object.
And the sun will set for you The sun will set for you And the shadow of the day Will embrace the world in grey And the sun will set for you
The Shadow of the Day, Linkin Park

14. Remember those walls I built Well, baby they're tumbling down And they didn't even put up a fight They didn't even make a sound

15. Personification…do walls really fight?
Remember those walls I built Well, baby they're tumbling down And they didn't even put up a fight They didn't even make a sound Halo by Beyonce

16. They reach into your room Just feel their gentle touch When all hope is gone You know sad songs say so much

17. Personification: do songs touch and talk
Personification: do songs touch and talk? Alliteration: repetition of initial sounds
They reach into your room Just feel their gentle touch When all hope is gone You know sad songs say so much
Sad Songs; Elton John

18. I'd catch a grenade for ya Throw my hand on a blade for ya I'd jump in front of a train for ya You know I'd do anything for ya I would go through all this pain Take a bullet straight through my brain

19. Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration. Dialect: “ya”
I'd catch a grenade for ya Throw my hand on a blade for ya I'd jump in front of a train for ya You know I'd do anything for ya
I would go through all this pain Take a bullet straight through my brain
Grenade. Bruno Mars

20. You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen
You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen.. Comet, and Cupid, and Donner and Blitzen.. But do you recall...? The most famous reindeer of all
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer

21. Alliteration: Repetition of initial sounds
You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen.. Comet, and Cupid, and Donner and Blitzen.. But do you recall...? The most famous reindeer of all
(music break)
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer

22. When I was fourteen I was falling fast For a blue eyed girl in my homeroom class Trying to find the courage to ask her out Was like trying to get oil from a waterspout

23. Simile: Indirect comparison or two unlike things using like, as, seems, or than.
When I was fourteen I was falling fast For a blue eyed girl in my homeroom class Trying to find the courage to ask her out Was like trying to get oil from a waterspout Life’s a Dance, John Michael Montgomery

24. I'm so You so 2000 and late I got that boom, boom, boom That future boom, boom, boom Let me get it now

25. Onomatopoeia: when a word sounds like what it is.
I'm so You so 2000 and late I got that boom, boom, boom That future boom, boom, boom Let me get it now
Boom, Boom: The Black Eyed Peas

26. Life's a dance you learn as you go Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow Don't worry about what you don't know Life's a dance you learn as you go

27. Metaphor: a direct comparison of two unlike things
Life's a dance you learn as you go Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow Don't worry about what you don't know Life's a dance you learn as you go
Life’s a Dance, John Michael Montgomery

28. Love baby, that's where it's at) Bang, bang, bang, on the door, baby (Knock a little louder baby) Bang bang bang,on the door, baby (I can't hear you) Bang bang bang, on the door, baby (Knock a little louder sugar)

29. Onomatopoeia: when a word sounds like what it is.
Love baby, that's where it's at) Bang, bang, bang, on the door, baby (Knock a little louder baby) Bang, bang, bang, on the door, baby (I can't hear you) Bang, bang, bang, on the door, baby (Knock a little louder sugar) Love Shack: B-52’s

30. Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

31. Imagery: visual
Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes Lucy in the sky with diamonds. John Lennon

32. I tried to catch my balance but I was supposed to fall It seems that spilling coffee was no accident at all 'Cause you're here right now, sitting on my couch Funny how it all works out

33. I tried to catch my balance but I was supposed to fall
Imagery: Kinetic-showing us how something moves. Visual- we can all picture witting on our couch.
I tried to catch my balance but I was supposed to fall
It seems that spilling coffee was no accident at all
'Cause you're here right now, sitting on my couch
Funny how it all works out
Touch: Natasha Bedingfield

34. Sweet Miss Betty likes to sing off key
In the pew behind me
That's what I love about Sunday
Sing along as the choir sways
Every verse of Amazin' Grace
And then we shake the Preacher's hand
Go home, into your blue jeans
Have some chicken and some baked beans
Cat-napping on the porch swing
You curled up next to me
The smell of jasmine wakes us up

35. Aural and Kinetic Imagery Visual and Kinetic Imagery
Aural Imagery
Sweet Miss Betty likes to sing off key In the pew behind me That's what I love about Sunday Sing along as the choir sways Every verse of Amazin' Grace And then we shake the Preacher's hand Go home, into your blue jeans Have some chicken and some baked beans Cat-napping on the porch swing You curled up next to me The smell of jasmine wakes us up
Aural and Kinetic Imagery
Dialect
Visual and Kinetic Imagery
Gustatory Imagery
Olfactory Imagery

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