Figurative Language in Music

Author's Note: In lots of Ed Sheeran's songs he has lots of examples of awesome figurative language, he uses lots of metaphors and smiles in his music. This are just two examples from two of his songs of how he uses personification in songwriting.

Sometimes while writing music songwriters like to add figurative language to make the song more realistic and to make the song come to live. Ed Sheeran is one of those songwriters. In almost all his songs he uses figurative language and this are just a few examples of how he uses figurative language.

The first example of Ed Sheeran using figurative language in one of his song is in 'Autumn Leaves'. In this song there is a really good example of a simile  In the song the lyrics are "float down like autumn leaves". The whole song he's explaining about how sometimes people just need somebody there to be with them. So the lyrics "float down like autumn  leaves" means that if you ever need anything that I'll be there for you. Ed Sheeran always tries to connect to his music so the song might possibly be about how he or one of his friends was facing a lot of struggles and they always tried to be there for each other.

in the song 'Autumn Leaves' there was an example of a simile but in 'A Team' there is also  more examples of similes. For example 'crumbling like pastries' is a simile, since he is comparing a person to an object that means that. these lyrics have to be a simile. This song is mainly about how in life people are going to make mistakes and your just going to have to get over it since what happened, happened and you can't fix what happened so you just have to get over it and keep living. Similes will affect the tone of the song by giving the song more meaning.

Not only do songwriters use similes to help people relate to the music more and to give the music more meaning they also sometimes add sound effects to express how they feel about the song. An example of using onomatopoeia in a song is the lyrics 'cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder, (mm). This song is mostly about how some people don't know how amazing they are so this lyrics mean that he loves all these little things about this one girl and he's trying to show the people that listen to his music how much she means to her by using onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia can affect the meaning of the song by expressing how the writer or character feels about something.

Song writers use lots of different figurative language to make there music more interesting. It gives things meaning and helps other people to relate to it. But there is not just figurative language in songs there is also figurative language all around us sometimes when you have a normal conversation with people they might use similes or onomatopoeia to express what they feel about for a certain topic.There is examples of figurative language in books, movies, magazines and newspaper figurative language is a way to express feelings and to make things more interesting.