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Adele Laurie Blue Adkins Figurative Language

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Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is an amazing pop singer with over 50 million records of her new album “21” sold worldwide. Adele was born on May 5th 1988. She wrote songs and sang them and soon became famous for her work. Her songs are usually about her love life with sad lyrics. She loves to use figurative language in her songs. Since 2008- the present day (2015), people have been listening to her wonderful songs. Two of her most notable songs are: Rolling in the Deep and Set Fire to the Rain. They both spotlight her love life and figurative language she writes on the page. She uses figurative language but doesn’t stray from three of her most used types. She usually uses metaphors, idioms, and hyperboles. One of her famous songs in titled rolling …show more content…

It is comparing how mad she is about her love life to a fire. The meaning is that she is really angry. Another example from “Rolling in the Deep,” is “turn my sorrow into treasured gold.” It means she wants to turn her depression into happiness. It is a metaphor because it compares her happiness to treasured gold. Idioms are another phases that have a denotation and a connotative meaning. One idiom in her song is “They leave me breathless.” This is an example of an idiom because it means to different things. The denotative meaning would be to have her with no breath. The meaning that is implied and is true is that she can’t believe it and they are amazing. Another idiom is “You had my heart inside my hands.” It is an idiom because you definably cannot put your heart into someone’s hand. She means that he controlled and took her love. An exaggeration is used by everyone. We call that hyperboles. Adele uses a lot of them. An example is “we almost had it all.” People can’t have everything. She means they were close to having a lot of things they wanted. “I’m going to make your head burn,” is a big exaggeration. She wants to make him really frustrated but his head won’t burn from

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