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Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt

By: Kasey Duncan

Metaphor

By: Frank Ocean

Song: Thinkin Bout You

Quote: "A tornado flew around my room before you came"

Metaphor

This is a metaphor because this quote is a rhetorical statement that gives the sentence more of an effect.

The artist means that it went down in his room his emotions over him.

https://youtu.be/6JHu3b-pbh8https://

Metaphor

Metaphor

Quote: "Looks like a girl but she's a flame."

Artist: Alicia Keys

Song: Girl on Fire

This quote is a metaphor because it compares a girl to a flame using the word "like".

https://youtu.be/J91ti_MpdHA

Similie

Similie

Quote: "But like the sun know you know I found my way back round."

Song: Crooked Smile

Artist: J.Cole

The artist is comparing the sun to him finding his way back around just like the sun coming back to shine on earth after it sets using the word "like".

The artist means he will always be back home.

https://youtu.be/gi0zIt_FmOo

Similie

Simile

Quote: "I see on both sides like Chanel."

Song: Chanel

Artist: Frank Ocean

This quote is a simile comparing the Chanel C's (logo) to the artist seeing on both sides using the word "like".

The artist meant that he can see both sides of an issue just like Chanel has two c's on both sides of the logo.

https://youtu.be/XnbsIl2BnWwv

Personification

Personification

Quote: "You start to freeze as horror looks you rightv between the eyes."

Song: Thriller

Artist: Michael Jackson

The artist is protraying horror as a person looking between the eyes of a person. Horror is given a human quality.

The artist means you start to freeze when you get nervous or scared.

https://youtu.be/-e-y-1VRZ3I

Hyperbole

Hyperbole

Quote: "Killing me softly with his song."

Song: Killing Me Softly With His Song

Artist: Fugees

The artist's event of being killed by a song is very unlikely and is and over exaggeration of how she would react to the song.

The artis very touched by the words in the song and the words are making her feel deep emotion.

https://youtu.be/oKOtzIo-uYw

Alllieteration

Allieteration

Quote: "Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow."

Song: So Sick - Ne-Yo

The alliteration in this quote is the letter S because the words that start with the letter S are close together and can tougue tying.

The artist is saying he is tired of hearing love songs.

https://youtu.be/IxszlJppRQI

Idiom

Idiom

Quote: "To take someone's breath away."

This is an idiom because it is a ecxpression that is meand something different from its literal meaning.

This a non-literal saying meaning you take someone by surprise.

Allusion

Allusion

Quote: "Shot me out of the sky, you're my kryptonite, you keep making me weak, yeah frozen and cant speak."

One Thing - One Direction

This quote is an allusion because it is making a reference to superman indirectly.

The artists meant that they were deeply hurt and this relates to Superman being affected and physically hurt when this object called kryptonite was around.

https://youtu.be/Y1xs_xPb46M

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia

Quote: "Tik tok on the clock but the party dont stop."

Tik Tok - Ke$ha

The sound tick tock is onomatopoeia because the words tick tock is drescribing the sound of a clock ticking.

The artist meant time is passing by but no matter the time of day the party wont stop.

https://youtu.be/iP6XpLQM2Cs

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