Study Guide - Figurative Language

This quiz is meant to test your preparedness for the Essential Skills Test this Friday. Do your best to demonstrate mastery of the Essential Skills Concept!

I have compiled examples from your Song Lyrics Paragraph packets so that you can recognize figurative language in your favorite songs. I know it's a study guide for a big test, but do your best to enjoy! THOUGH THERE MAY BE MULTIPLE FIGURATIVE TERMS BEING IN ANY GIVEN LYRIC, USE YOUR LOGIC SKILLS TO HONE IN ON THE CORRECT ANSWER WHICH IS PROVIDED. SOME QUESTIONS MAY HAVE TWO CORRECT ANSWERS.

Created by: MissP

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  1. Like snowflakes when the weather warms up / Like leaves on the trees when the autumn comes / Like the dogwood blossoms in a late spring rain / All the disappearin' bubbles in a glass of champagne / Like a red kite lost in a blue sky wind / -Billy Currington, “Love Done Gone”
  2. Can you practice what you preach? / Can you turn the other cheek? / -The Black Eyed Peas, “Where Is The Love?”
  3. Born to a throne, stronger than Rome / But Violent prone, poor people zone / But it’s my home, all I have known / Where I got grown, streets we would roam / -K’naan, “Wavin’ Flag”
  4. Who said I can't wear my / Converse with my dress? / Oh, baby, that's just me! / -Demi Lovato, “La La Land”
  5. Gazing through the window at the world outside / Wondering will mother earth survive / Hoping that mankind will stop abusing her sometime / -Ozzy Osbourne, “Dreamer”
  6. The world is a vampire, sent to drain / secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames / -The Smashing Pumpkins, “The World Is A Vampire”
  7. She didn't realize / She chased the type of guys / That don't believe in ties / Trying to apologize / Never forget the day / She laughed and walked away / But now the prom queen, the prom queen / Is crying sittin outside of my door / She never know how / How everything could turn around / -Lil Wayne, “Prom Queen”
  8. Baby I’m yours And I’ll be yours until the sun no longer shines Yours until the poets run out of rhyme In other words, until the end of time -Barbara Lewis, “Baby, I’m Yours”
  9. Happiness hit her like a train on a track / Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back -Florence and the Machine, “Dog Days Are Over”
  10. They come around like honey (they come around like honey) / Cus I'm fly like a bee / Man I got 'em all buzzin' buzzin' buzzin' buzzin' / Like da-da-da-da-da-da-da / -Mann Ft. 50 Cent, “Buzzin’” CHOOSE TWO ANSWERS.
  11. His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy / There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti / He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs, / but he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down, / the whole crowd goes so loud / -Eminem, “Lose Yourself”
  12. I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping / Still my guitar gently weeps / -The Beatles, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
  13. When the lights go down in the city, / and the sun shines on the bay, / do I want to be there / in my city by the bay, ohoh ohohoh ohoh / So you said you’re lonely / well my friend I'm lonely too / I want to get back, to my city by the bay, / -Journey, “When The Lights Go Down in The City”
  14. I walked across an empty land / I knew the pathway like the back of my hand / I felt the earth beneath my feet / Sat by the river and it made me complete / Oh simple thing where have you gone? / -Keane, “Somewhere Only We Know”
  15. Crawl on me / Sink into me / Die for me / Living Dead Girl / -Rob Zombie, “Living Dead Girl”
  16. The way you lie / You lie like the man with the slicked back / hair who sold me that Ford / Yeah you lie like a pine tree in the back yard / after last month's storm / Well you lie like a penny in a parking lot at / the grocery store / It just comes way too natural to you / The way you lie / -The Band Perry, “You Lie” CHOOSE TWO ANSWERS.
  17. I stood there With my jaw on the ground Lost my composure But I didn't make a sound -Active Child, “She Was A Vision”
  18. It's so hard not to be crushed / when you're praying for too much / and the stars refuse to shine for you / they do it just to spite / well they know you're trying to hard / -Beulah, “Only King Once”
  19. Maybe, it's not too late / To learn how to love / And forget how to hate / Mental wounds not healing / Life's a bitter shame / I'm going off the rails on a crazy train / I'm going off the rails on a crazy train / -Ozzy Osbourne, “Crazy Train”
  20. Hush little baby don't say a word And never mind that noise you heard It's just the beasts under your bed In your closet and in your head -Metallica, “Enter Sandman”
  21. I wrote your name / On my wall three-thousand times / Last night you were on my mind. / -Neyo, “Crazy”

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