A Collection of Literary Devices

From the song "We are Young" by Fun. ft. Janelle Monae:
- "my friends are in the bathroom, getting higher than the Empire State" -simile
- "we can burn brighter than the sun" -hyperbole

From a poem by Vladimir Nabokov:

- "Most of the dandelions had changed from suns, to moons" -metaphor

From the song "Get Lost" by Patrick Wolf:

- "This town is skipping like a record" -simile

From the song "Shake it Out" by Florence + The Machine:

- "Regrets collect like old friends, here to relive your darkest moments" -simile

From the song "The Gambler" by Fun.:

- "All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes" -metaphor

- "Even if the sun stopped waking up over the fields..." -personification

From the song "Blue Lips" by Regina Spektor:

- "The pictures in his mind arose, and began to breathe" -personification

From the song "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane:

- "I knew the pathway like the back of my hand" -simile

From the song "Put Your Records On" by Corinne Bailey Rae:

- "Summer came like cinnamon, so sweet" -simile

From a Leon's commercial:

- "I'm complex, like if sudoku and algebra had a baby" -simile

From the song "Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men

- "...it's the house telling you to close your eyes" -personification