SIMILE. A comparison of two unlike things using ‘like” or ‘as’ She was as pretty as a peach.
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Literary Devices In Lyrics
Literary Devices In Lyrics
SIMILESIMILE
A comparison between UNLIKE items using “like” or “as.”
Examples:Examples:
• “Life is like a ride on a freeway.”
• “A dream is like a river.”
• “Forever ain’t that long, when your smile is stuck in your head like a pop song.”
METAPHORMETAPHOR
A direct comparison between unlike items--does not use “like” or
“as.”
ExamplesExamples
• “I’m a speck thrown on a map.”
• “Love is a burning thing.”
• “The process of belief is an elixir when you’re weak.”
• “We are the prey, and culture is the predator.
HYPERBOLEHYPERBOLE
Intense exaggeration, usually intended to make a point.
Examples:Examples:
• “I need 10,000 angels to walk me out the door.”
• “Maybe we’re worlds apart.”
OnomatopoeiaOnomatopoeia
Words that mimic real-life sounds.
Examples:Examples:
• “BANG, BANG, the nail guns rang out.”
• “Here comes the BOOM.”
• “whoppa whoppa
whoppa whoppa”
ImageryImagery
•Descriptions that use the five senses
(sight, smell, taste, touch, sound)
Examples:Examples:
• “blue clear sky.”
• “My little black heart breaks apart.”
• “My brain is hanging upside down.”
• “I can see my breath in between the words that fog my spinning head.”
ALLITERATION:ALLITERATION:
Repeating a consonant sound, usually at the beginning of words.
EXAMPLES:EXAMPLES:
•“Mass paranoia is a Mode not a Malady.”
•“Coffin Created for Creative thought”
•“Sick Sick Senses that Sense DNA on barbed wire fenCes.
PersonificationPersonification
Giving life-like qualities to non-living
things.
Examples:Examples:
•“Street’s idle chatter tears your heart strings to tatters.”
•“London calling.”•“If my heart says ‘I’m sorry’ can we leave it at that.”
•“This place will chew you up and spit you out before you go.”
CoupletCouplet
•A unit of poetry that has two lines, usually rhymed.
“For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.”
StanzasStanzas
• “The paragraphs of poetry”
•Groups of lines that form the units of poems
All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed mole.
SymbolSymbol
•An object with a double meaning.
•A thing that stands for something besides itself.
IRONYIRONY
Something said or done that is the opposite of what you would
expect.
Examples:Examples:
• “It’s for the better, your better half is gone.”
• “We were different, just like all the other kids.”
• “The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair.”
• “No sense, no guide, ain’t it beautiful to be alive?”
Lyrical examples courtesy of:Lyrical examples courtesy of:
• Bad Religion• Relient K• Less Than Jake• The Clash• The Ramones• Alkaline Trio• George Strait• Unwritten Law• Garth Brooks• Mindy McCready
• Philmore
• P.O.D.
• The Offspring
• Social Distortion/Johnny Cash
