Figurative Language in your favorite song

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"Read" one of your favorite songs. 
Identify and interpret at least three
different examples of figurative language
used in the song.  Include the song title,
the artist, and the lyrics that contain the
figurative language in your post.

[CUI JIN LU]

 

I Believe I Can Fly

                       by R. Kelly

 

1.

i believe i can fly
i believe i can touch the sky

 

Here is hyperbole,because we are human ,we don't have wing,we can't fly in the sky.

 

2.

i used to think that i could not go on
and life was nothing but an awful song

 

Here is metaphor,an awful song is used as a metaphor for life in this song.

 

3.

i see me running through that open door

 

Here is kinesthetic imagery,he feel himself running through that open door.

 

 

 

 

[KUNJUN JIANG]

By: Hoskey Lyrics

Personification: Petals dancing in the air.
Petal can't dance, it is not human.

Metaphor: She is the sword.
It's using sword to descrbe the girl.

Metonymy: The pink hair kills the demons.
Descrbe the girl as pink hair.

Simile: The blood are beautiful as scarlet flowers.
The blood looks like a red flower when it spill on the ground.

[JIA YIN HUANG]

Title:  Long Live

artist: Taylor Swift

 

Figurative language:

 

1) Metaphor: "we were the kings and queens."

This sentence of lyrics compares protagonists with kings and queens who can control the world. it's means human also can control the life by themselves.

 

2) Hyperbole: " fighting dragons with you."

Dragons is extinct. Human fight with dragons is impossible, this sentence is one example of hyperbole.

 

3) Hyperbole:"Long live, all the moutains we moved."

Human can't move the mountain, it's impossible, this sentence is another example of hyperbole.

4)synecdoche-whole to part: "how all the kingdom lights shined just for me and you."

Here is the example of synecdoche(whole to part), all the kongdom lights shined for "me" and"you" which the whole of something are used to refr to the part of something. 

 

All those figurative language used help listeners to create imagery in their minds.

 

[HAI LUN MEI]

I won’t give up by Jason Mraz

Simile:

1.  When I look into your eyes, it’s like watching the night sky.(the eyes and night sky to compare )

2.  There’s so much they hold, and just like them old star. （they means what author see, it using they and old star to compare）                                                                                            

Hyperbole:

1.  Cause even the stars they burn some even fall to the earth.(these two thing is impossible to happen around us)

2.  I won’t give up on us, even if the skies get rough.(it using hyperbole to explain how love someone)

Synecdoche：

1.      We had to learn how to bend without the world caving in.  (it using the world to stand for their whole love)

[MING SHI ZOU]

     Because you live

                       byJesse McCartney

Simile:

1.Then your voice calls me back like a wake up call

( the vocie is like a wake up call)

2. My world has twice as many stars in the sky

( the world is like the many stars in the sky )

 

Hyperbole:

1. It′s the end of the world in my mind.

(it describe the person heart were broke )

2. Cause of you, made it through every storm

( human cannot through storm )

Metaphor:

1. I′m so glad I found an angel

(using angel to describe that girl )

Synecdoche:

1. It′s the end of the world in my mind
(it using the end of the world to stand for his emotion.)

[JIA HUANG WEI]

"Breathless" (By Shayne Ward

hyperbole; You have been sent from heaven to earth.

    Sent from heaven to earth , heaven is the exaggeration that express a really nice wanderland. 

simile;You're like an angel. 

   Angel is used to describe a beautiful being in this sentence.

metaphor;our love was a story book. 

   In this sentence ,love is described as a story book, it has many plots and stage.

[YIWEN JIANG]

“My heart will go on ”              
                              By ：Will Jennings                        Singer：Celine Dion

Synecdoche:
                      you're here in my heart　

                    （mean:I love you）　

Personification：
                        Love can touch us one time
                      （love cannot touch you，human know it ）　
Hyperbole ：
                    near...far...wherever you are. I believe that the heart does go on,once more you open the door.

                    (in real life,if you go far away,of course your heart with you. It will not leave you and stay with other people)

[ZHI YI ZHANG]

Drenched (by unknow)

Metaphor:Color seems so dull without you

it prove this man is so inportant for her.

Hyperbole:when the world is winding down,thoughts of you linger around.

the world well never being wind.

Simile: when minutes become hours, when days become years.

Time pass, thinks are pass to the head.

[JIA HUI LI]

Title; Heart wall  

Singer;Guo  Jing

Figurative language

1Personification; :Dolphins flew over from the immediate， I saw the smiling faces of the sun。

In this sentence  has make dolphin like human can fly and make sun like human can smile，so it is a example of hyperbole。

2;hyperbole;The first met cloudy cover your shot from the side。

The cloudy can't cover human‘s face so it is hyperbole。

3metaphor;Your heart had a wall.

Use the wall to metaphor  she does not want some one to go inside her heart.

[XIN YANG]

        Daniel Powter - Best Of Me

metophor

           maybe you're the light for me

        Comparing the dream to the light. Describing how important the dream is.

personification

           when you talk to me it strikes me

         The dream can not talk, but in this sentence, the dream is like a person and it can talk to him.

hypobole

            Everything's behind you

          Dream is important, but it not means something else is worse than it.

       

 

 

[YING ZHOU]

LOVE STORY

By Taylor Swift

Metaphor:"You were Romeo, I was scarlet letter".  Juliet is not actually a scarlet letter.

Hyperbole:"We keep quite' cause we're dead id they knew".  It's an over exaggeration because their families wouldn't actually kill them.

Alliteration:"We were both young..."   "We were" has the same consonant sound.

Allusion:The song is base on Romeo and Juliet . In the real story ,Juliet' dad said no after they fall in love, but in this song her dad said yes in the end.Then they live in the happiness life.

[BERRIN VAROL]

Stereo Hearts-Gym Class Heroes 

''If I was just another dusty record on the shelf'' - Metaphor because human can't be a dusty record on the self but they compared man to the dusty record.

''Thought love was dead but now you're changing my mind'' - Personification, love is not a living thing, and it cannot be physically dead but as a feeling it can.In here they act like love is a living thing.

''Would you hold me on your shoulder wherever you walk'' - Hyperbole because someone cant cary someone on their shoulder they were exaggerating, but what they actually mean was would that person can keep the other one next to their self where ever they go.

[PANG YEN WU]

"It's Time"                         imagine dragon

So this is what you meant
When you said that you were spent
And now it's time to build from the bottom of the pit
Right to the top
Don't hold back
Packing my bags and giving the academy a rain check

I don't ever wanna let you down
I don't ever wanna leave this town
'Cause after all
This city never sleeps at night

It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit
I'm just the same as I was
Now don't you understand
That I'm never changing who I am

So this is where you fell
And I am left to sell
The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell
Right to the top
Don't look back
Turning the rags and giving the commodities a rain check

I don't ever wanna let you down
I don't ever wanna leave this town
'Cause after all
This city never sleeps at night

It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger but then I'll admit
I'm just the same as I was
Now don't you understand
That I'm never changing who I am

It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit
I'm just the same as I was
Now don't you understand
That I'm never changing who I am

This road never looked so lonely
This house doesn't burn down slowly
To ashes, to ashes

It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit
I'm just the same as I was
Now don't you understand
That I'm never changing who I am

It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit
I'm just the same as I was
Now don't you understand
That I'm never changing who I am

Personification：This city never sleeps at night .the city can not fall in to sleep the author give it a human action so it is personification.

 

Titanium 

David Guetta

You shout it loud, but I can't hear a word you sayI'm talking loud, not saying muchI'm criticized, but all your bullets ricochetyou shoot me down, but I get up
I'm bulletproof, nothing to losefire away, fire awayricochet, you take your aimfire away, fire awayyou shoot me down, but I won't fallI am titaniumyou shoot me down, but I won't fallI am titanium
Cut me down, but it's you who'll have further to fallGhost town and haunted loveRaise your voice, sticks and stones may break my bonesI'm talking loud, not saying much
I'm bulletproof, nothing to losefire away, fire awayricochet, you take your aimfire away, fire away
you shoot me down, but I won't fallI am titaniumyou shoot me down, but I won't fallI am titanium
I am titanium
I am titanium
Stone hard, machine gunFired at the ones who runStone hard, as bulletproof glass
You shoot me down, but I won't fallI am titaniumYou shoot me down, but I won't fallI am titaniumYou shoot me down, but I won't fallI am titaniumYou shoot me down, but I won't fallI am titanium
I am titanium
Hyperbole:Raise your voice, sticks and stones may break my bones. the voice can not really breaks the bones so that is exaggerating the fact so it is hyperbole

Lady GaGa
Poker Face

Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah

I wanna hold em like they do in Texas please
Fold em let em hit me raise it baby stay with me, I love it
Luck and intuition play the cards with Spades to start
And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart

Oh, oh, oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

I wanna roll with him a hard pair we will be
A little gambling is fun when you're with me, I love it
Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun
And baby when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun, fun

Oh, oh, oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
(Mum mum mum mah)
(Mum mum mum mah)

I won't tell you that I love you
Kiss or hug you
Cause I'm bluffin' with my muffin
I'm not lying I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunning

Just like a chick in the casino
Take your bank before I pay you out
I promise this, promise this
Check this hand cause I'm marvelous

Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

simile:Just like a chick in the casino
Take your bank before I pay you out it compare one thing to the other thing and use the word like so it is simile.

[JUN HAO FENG]

"Girl on Fire" 

   by Alicia Keys

Simile:

  "Lonely like a high way"

  This is saying the girl has no real friend even though she is very popular.

Metaphor

  "Look like a girl, but she is a flame"

  It is saying that the girl is hot like the fire.

Hyperbole:

  "but she know she can fly away"

  The girl is a human, and human can not fly.

[ZHAO FENG TUNG]

We Are Young- Fun feat. Janelle Monáe

Metaphor:

"We can burn brighter than the sun"

that means our life filled with happiness, optimism, and hope

Hyperbole:

"My friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the Empire State"

bathroom cant be higher than Empire State

Metonymy:

"My seat’s been taken by some sunglasses asking 'bout a scar"

i think this refer that the guys who wearing sunglasses will do something violence in the bar, because its already dark there.

[XIAOYAN ZHANG]

Title: Firework

Artist:  Katy Perry

Metaphor:

"Baby, you're a firework,

Come on, let your colours burst."

It compares a boy who is her really love to the firework, we know the  firework is a unlive thing, shows this boy is only one in her life.

Synecdoche (whole to part):

"Maybe you reason why all the doors are closed,

So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road."

This figurative language is from whole to part, or part to whole, in this lyrics is from all the doors to the one door.

Simile:

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?"

"You don't have to feel like a wasted space."

"Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow."

It is to compares two things use "like" or "as", it is to compares the person's feeling to plastic bag and wasted space, and compares he's heart to the lightning bolt.

[SHAIMAA IBRAHIM]

Rolling In The Deep by Adele

         There's a fire starting in my heartReaching a fever pitch and it's bring me out the darkFinally I can see you crystal clearGo ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare
See how I'll leave, with every piece of youDon't underestimate the things that I will doThere's a fire starting in my heartReaching a fever pitch and it's bring me out the dark
The scars of your love remind me of usThey keep me thinking that we almost had it allThe scars of your love, they leave me breathlessI can't help feeling
We could have had it allRolling in the deepYou had my heart inside your handAnd you played it to the beat
Baby, I have no story to be toldBut I've heard one of you and I'm gonna make your head burnThink of me in the depths of your despairMaking a home down there as mine sure won't be shared
The scars of your love remind you of usThey keep me thinking that we almost had it allThe scars of your love, they leave me breathlessI can't help feeling
We could have had it allRolling in the deepYou had my heart inside your handAnd you played it to the beat
Could have had it allRolling in the deepYou had my heart inside your handBut you played it with a beating
Throw your soul through every open doorCount your blessings to find what you look forTurn my sorrow into treasured goldYou pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow
(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)We could have had it all(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)We could have had it all
(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)It all, it all, it all, it all(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)We could have had it all(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)Rolling in the deep
(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)You had my heart and soul(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)And you played it to the beat
(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)Could have had it all(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)Rolling in the deep
(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)You had my heart and soul in your hand(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)But you played it, you played it, you played it to the beat

Personification

 

1) "it's bringing me out the dark " . personificate the fire as a person who could lead someone to the right road

2)"throw your soul through every open door " . personificate the soul as something that you could hold and throw it out .

 3) "the scars of your love ,they leave me breathless "personificate the love as a person who could have scars of their lungs and leaving her dying .

Metaphor

1)"see how i'll leave with every piece of you ". she's compering the future that she would live with every piece of him as a memorial .

Hyperbole

1) " you had my heart inside of your hand". sarcasm ,exaggerating because if he had her heart in his hand she will die .

 

 

[SAMANTHA SUAREZ NUNEZ]

"If I Were A Boy" By:Beyonce


I do put myself first and make the rules as I go.
This is a Simile because i am using the word "as" to compare the rules with myself.

I would turn off my phone tell everyone is broken so they think that im alone.
This is Personification because its using the form as an object.

I think i could understand, how it feels to love a girl i swear i do be a better man.
This is Hyperbole because it shows how a man will feel if the women treats him the same way.

[WEN BIN CHEN]

Love The Way You Lie
Eminem 、Rihanna

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn   (hyperbole)

a women will not burn.

It's a race that's the culprit controls your boat(simile)

the race likes the boat.

So they say you're best to go your separate ways（personification）

the race can not say something.

[MARISOL GERMAN]

  BMC BOYZ _I LOVE YOU

        simile= me without you is like the sun without the moon.

         

         hyperbole= I can see me and you just right be beloved, I can see you being my wife.

          

          personification = you the left to my right,you the dark to my light,you the only one i want in my life.

           

           metaphor=without you I'm incomplete.

         Metonymy = never be without you cause you without me the can never be right.

   

         synecdoche=you the only women i'm there for.