Find 10 examples of figurative language from songs, movies, books, etc. Include the line, where it's from, and the type of figurative language.
Figurative Language:
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Assonance
- Hyperbole
- Irony
- Juxtaposition
- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia
- Personification
- Pun
- Simile
Examples:
"Rock you like a hurricane." - Scorpions - Simile
"Love you like a love song." - Selena Gomez - Simile
"You've lived your life like a candle in the wind." - Elton John - Simile
"Love is a battlefield." - Pat Benatar - Metaphor
"My heart's a stereo." - Gym Class Heroes - Metaphor
"Papa was a rolling stone." - The Temptations - Metaphor
"You're my golden star." - Bruno Mars, Treasure - Metaphor
"She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly." - Ben Folds Five - Metaphor
"All my dreams pass before my eyes." - Kansas, Dust in the Wind - Hyperbole
"I would walk 500 miles." - I don't freaking know - Hyperbole
"Everything you touch surely dies." - Passenger, Let Her Go -Hyperbole
"Even if you were a million miles away, I could still feel you in my bed." - Alicia Keys - Hyperbole
"You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes." - Michael Jackson, Thriller - Personification
"Tick! Tock! on the clock but the party don't stop." - Ke$ha - Onomatopoeia
"Dreams come slow and they go so fast." - Passenger, Let Her Go - Juxtaposition
