POP SONGS WHICH INCLUDE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Simile
Moves Like Jagger (Maroon 5)
Break Your Heart (Taio Cruz)
Stuck Like Glue (Sugarland)
Big Girls Don’t Cry (Fergie)
A Year Without Rain (Selena Gomez)
Circus (Britney Spears)
I’m Like a Bird (Nelly Furtado)
Hot and Cold (Katy Perry)
Mean (Taylor Swift)
Like a G6 (Far East Movement)
Alliteration
Smile (Uncle Kraker)
What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rockin’ Robin (Jackson 5)
Winter Wonderland
Rock and Roll to the Rescue (Beach Boys)
Metaphor
Stereo Hearts (Gym Class Heroes)
The Climb (Miley Cyrus)
Firework (Katy Perry)
Naturally (Selena Gomez)
Love Story (Taylor Swift)
Today Was a Fairytale (Taylor Swift)
Time (Pink Floyd)
Dinosaur (Ke$ha)
Every Time We Touch (Cascada)
Extra Terrestrial (Katy Perry)
Allusion
We Didn’t Start the Fire (Billy Joel)
Love Story (Taylor Swift)
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
40 (U2)
Ol’ Evil Eye (ICP)
Gangsta’s Paradise (Coolio)
Kryptonite (3 Doors Down)
Hey Juliet (LMNT)
Onomatopoeia
Tik Tok (Ke$ha)
Love Shack (B-52s)
Super Bass (Nicki Minaj)
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Ring a Ling (Black Eyed Peas)
Boom Boom Pow (Black Eyed Peas)
Ring Ring Goes the Trolley (from the musical,
Meet Me in St. Louis)
Carol of the Bells
Personification
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day)
The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)
When Doves Cry
Hip Hop Is Dead (Nas)
Shadow of the Day (Linkin Park)
Stop and Stare (OneRepublic)
Fireflies (Owl City)
reverse personification?
Hyperbole
Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars)
Today Was a Fairytale (Taylor Swift)
A Thousand Miles (Vanessa Carlton)
Fire Burning (Sean Kingston)
Grenade (Bruno Mars)
Rockin’ Robin (Jackson 5)
Idea by Laura Levon, Indian Springs MS (Columbia City, IN)
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