Literary Language in Songs and Poems

-Onomatopedia


Eminem - Lose Yourself: BLAOW


-metaphor


selena gomez - naturally: you are the thunder, i am the lightning


-Simile


katy perry - hon n´cold: you change your mind like a girl changes clothes


-rhyme


glee - america: hurricane blowing, population growing


-personification


P!nk - F**King Perfect: such a tired game


-repetition


Justin Bieber - Baby: baby, baby, baby ooo


-hyperbole


B.O.B - Magic: every time I touch that track it turns into gold


-alliteration


Paul McCann - Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies: Dont delay dawns disarming display


-assonance 


Eminem - Lose Yourself: The whole crowd goes so loud


-imagery


-allusion 


Charles Lamb - A Farewell to Tobacco: May the Babylonish curse, strait confound my stammering verse


-apostrophe


rihanna - we found love: we found love


-allegory


simple plan - vacation: a one way ticket out of my life


-understatement


Pitbull - give me everything: i mightve drunk a little bit more than i should


-paradox


Robert Frost - Nothing Cold Can Stay: green is gold


-irony


Robert Frost - Stars: Minerva, the godess of wisdom but her eyes are without the gift of sight


-synechdote


Shakespeare - Macbeth: Take thy face hence