Figurative Language in Music

Sydney Kilgore

Metaphor

Bloom- The Paper Kites

“The whole world, it is sleeping, but my world is you.”

SimileDead Sea- The Lumineers

“Like the Dead Sea, you told me I was like the Dead Sea. You'll never sink when you are with me, oh lord, like the Dead Sea.”

Alliteration

You Need Me, I Don’t Need You- Ed Sheeran

“Suffolk sadly seems to sort of suffocate me.”

Hyperbole

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran- Everything has changed

“And all I've seen since eighteen hours ago is green eyes and freckles in your smile.”

Onomatopoeia

Paramore – Crushcrushcrush

“Crush, crush, crush”

Imagery

Cats and Dogs – The Head and The Heart

“Somewhere underneath the floorboard, I will sweep my garden. Underneath the cupboard, lives a mouse and he discovered there was nothing there. Nothing there to discover.”