jueves, 10 de marzo de 2016

Figurative Language in a Popular Song

Firework-- Katy Perry

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag (simile: like a plastic bag)
Drifting through the wind Wanting to start again (alliteration: wind, wanting)
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin (simile: feel so paper) Like a house of cards (Simile: Like a house of cards)
Six feet under scream But no one seems to hear a thing (alliteration: Six, scream, seems)
You just gotta ignite the light (internal rhyme: ignite, light)
Like the Fourth of July (simile: you (you is implied)=Fourth of July)
Just own the night Like the Fourth of July (personification: implied that Fourth of July owns the night)
Cause baby you're a firework (metaphor: you’re a firework)
Come on show 'em what you’re worth (alliteration: work, what, worth)
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!" (onomatopoeia: oh, oh, oh)
As you shoot across the sky (hyperbole: you shoot across the sky)
Come on let your colors burst (alliteration: Come, colors)
You don't have to feel like a waste of space (simile: you=waste of space)
If you only knew what the future holds (personification: future holds)

 After a hurricane comes a rainbow (irony: hurricane/rainbow)

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