POP SONGS WHICH INCLUDE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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