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Let It Go – Idina Menzel
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen…
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I’ve tried…
Let it go, let it go

At the beginning of the song, the singer has used hyperbole. For example, ‘The snow glows white on the
mountain tonight’. In reality, snow doesn’t glow. We can see the personification and simile in the
following lines ‘The wind is howling like the swirling storm inside’. Here the wind is personified and it is
compared by a wolf’s howl.

Skyscraper – Demi Lovato
Skies are crying, I am watching
Catching teardrops in my hands…
You can break everything I am
Like I’m made of glass
Like I’m made of paper

The entire song is an extended metaphor of struggle and overcoming. In the lines, ‘Skies are crying’,
skies are personified. In the verse ‘you can break everything I am, like I’m made of glass”, has a simile.

Fire Work – Katy Perry

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag…
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards..

In the first line, ‘Do you ever feel like a plastic bag’, there is a simile. Here the singer compares a person
to a plastic bag which used to store things or perhaps a garbage cover. Later in line, there is a metaphor,
‘Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin’. Here the singer is trying to compare the weak-minded persons to a
thin paper or a tissue paper.

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