Using Songs to Understand Literary Devices

Most of us agree that songs are a unique style of poetry. Songs share literary devices used often to interpret poetry, such as caesura, enjambment, internal rhyme, and rhyming -- as well as others like personification, conflict, metaphor, simile, extended metaphor, hyperbole, understatement, paradox, irony, aphorism, and repetition. Of course, we're not limited to these few.

See if you can identify the literary devices present in the following songs. You may be surprised just how many there are in each song!

"Anagram" by Rush
"The Legend of Wooly Swamp" by The Charlie Daniels Band
"The River" by Garth Brooks
"Just the Two of Us" by Will Smith
"Raining in Baltimore" by Counting Crows
"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung
"Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel
"Ironic" by Alanis Morissette
"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel
"Bob" by Weird Al Yankovic
"Used to Feel Lucky" by Wallflowers
"Frankie and Johnny"
"Gorilla, You're a Desperado" by Warren Zevon
"Banana Pancakes" by Jack Johnson
Your song here! Find a SCHOOL APPROPRIATE song and link to it in the comment area. Use first OR last names ONLY and period number (6th or 7th). Be sure to include the literary device(s) used in the song.