Figurative Language In The Song Firework

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Figurative language can be found all around us including music. The famous line “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind wanting to start again?” is a figurative language in the song Firework by Katy Perry. This simile was used to compare a real life emotion, how people can feel so worthless and insignificant like a plastic bag at times. Sometimes you just feel so worthless and insignificant in life, you just want to start all over again. You feel the need to start a new life and move away from people, and places you currently know. Your life starts to feel like a waste, like a plastic bag so insignificant and worthless. You start think that you don’t belong in the life you live in. But like Katy Perry says, “You don’t

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