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3. It couldn't get no worse! (Litotes)
4. The clouds will be a daisy chain. (metaphor)
5. I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you! (Hyperbole)
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (personification)
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13 Beatles figurative language
1. Beep beep, beep beep yeah! (Onomatopoeia)
2. Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup (Simile)
3. It couldn't get no worse! (Litotes)
4. The clouds will be a daisy chain. (metaphor)
5. I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you! (Hyperbole)
6. I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet (Idiomatic)
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13 Beatles figurative language
1. Beep beep, beep beep yeah! (Onomatopoeia)
2. Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup (Simile)
3. It couldn't get no worse! (Litotes)
4. The clouds will be a daisy chain. (metaphor)
5. I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you! (Hyperbole)
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (personification)
7. I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet (Idiomatic)
8. Piggies clutching forks and knives and wearing starched white shirts is personification
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13 Beatles figurative language
1. Beep beep, beep beep yeah! (Onomatopoeia)
2. Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup (Simile)
3. It couldn't get no worse! (Litotes)
4. The clouds will be a daisy chain. (metaphor)
5. I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you! (Hyperbole)
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (personification)
7. I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet (Idiomatic)
8. Piggies clutching forks and knives and wearing starched white shirts is personification
9. We gave her most of our lives (Synecdoche)
And in the end
The love you take is equal to the love you make
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13 Beatles figurative language
1. Beep beep, beep beep yeah! (Onomatopoeia)
2. Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup (Simile)
3. It couldn't get no worse! (Litotes)
4. The clouds will be a daisy chain. (metaphor)
5. I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you! (Hyperbole)
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (personification)
7. I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet (Idiomatic)
8. Piggies clutching forks and knives and wearing starched white shirts is personification
9. We gave her most of our lives (Synecdoche)
10. Dripping from a dead dog's eye (alliteration)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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13 Beatles figurative language
1. Beep beep, beep beep yeah! (Onomatopoeia)
2. Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup (Simile)
3. It couldn't get no worse! (Litotes)
4. The clouds will be a daisy chain. (metaphor)
5. I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you! (Hyperbole)
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (personification)
7. I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet (Idiomatic)
8. Piggies clutching forks and knives and wearing starched white shirts is personification
9. We gave her most of our lives (Synecdoche)
10. Dripping from a dead dog's eye (alliteration)
11. Blackbird (Allusion)
And in the end
The love you take is equal to the love you make
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13 Beatles figurative language
1. Beep beep, beep beep yeah! (Onomatopoeia)
2. Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup (Simile)
3. It couldn't get no worse! (Litotes)
4. The clouds will be a daisy chain. (metaphor)
5. I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you! (Hyperbole)
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (personification)
7. I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet (Idiomatic)
8. Piggies clutching forks and knives and wearing starched white shirts is personification
9. We gave her most of our lives (Synecdoche)
10. Dripping from a dead dog's eye (alliteration)
11. Blackbird (Allusion)
12. Eleanor Rigby (euphony)
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13 Beatles figurative language
1. Beep beep, beep beep yeah! (Onomatopoeia)
2. Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup (Simile)
3. It couldn't get no worse! (Litotes)
4. The clouds will be a daisy chain. (metaphor)
5. I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you! (Hyperbole)
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (personification)
7. I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet (Idiomatic)
8. Piggies clutching forks and knives and wearing starched white shirts is personification
9. We gave her most of our lives (Synecdoche)
10. Dripping from a dead dog's eye (alliteration)
11. Blackbird (Allusion)
12. Eleanor Rigby (euphony)
13. The walrus was Paul (Allusion)
13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
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LucyInTheSkyWithHackneyDiamondsGEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
4. We all know Olba-di, Blah-dah (Savoy Truffle - Obla-di, Obla-da)
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
4. We all know Olba-di, Blah-dah (Savoy Truffle - Obla-di, Obla-da)
5. She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah (What's That You're Doing? -Paul)
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Some of the figurative language examples from the last round need to go to the Literary Devices in Beatles Songs thread. https://www.beatlesbible.com/f.....les-songs/
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
4. We all know Olba-di, Blah-dah (Savoy Truffle - Obla-di, Obla-da)
5. She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah (What's That You're Doing? -Paul)
6. She loves you yeah yeah yeah (All You Need Is Love - She Loves You )
Not 100% sure of this as that bit isn't in the official lyrics. But, it's there.
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
4. We all know Olba-di, Blah-dah (Savoy Truffle - Obla-di, Obla-da)
5. She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah (What's That You're Doing? -Paul)
6. She loves you yeah yeah yeah (All You Need Is Love - She Loves You )
7. Postcards From Paradise (everything)
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
4. We all know Olba-di, Blah-dah (Savoy Truffle - Obla-di, Obla-da)
5. She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah (What's That You're Doing? -Paul)
6. She loves you yeah yeah yeah (All You Need Is Love - She Loves You )
7. COOKIES! (Early 1970/Ringo - Hold On /John)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
4. We all know Olba-di, Blah-dah (Savoy Truffle - Obla-di, Obla-da)
5. She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah (What's That You're Doing? -Paul)
6. She loves you yeah yeah yeah (All You Need Is Love - She Loves You )
7. COOKIES! (Early 1970/Ringo - Hold On /John)
8. But you, point the way, to the truth when you say All You Need Is Love (All Those Years Ago - All You Need Is Love )
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1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
4. We all know Olba-di, Blah-dah (Savoy Truffle - Obla-di, Obla-da)
5. She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah (What's That You're Doing? -Paul)
6. She loves you yeah yeah yeah (All You Need Is Love - She Loves You )
8. COOKIES! (Early 1970/Ringo - Hold On /John)
9. But you, point the way, to the truth when you say All You Need Is Love (All Those Years Ago - All You Need Is Love )
10. Christmas Time Is Here Again ... Ain't been round since - last year! (Christmas 1968 / Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
4. We all know Olba-di, Blah-dah (Savoy Truffle - Obla-di, Obla-da)
5. She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah (What's That You're Doing? -Paul)
6. She loves you yeah yeah yeah (All You Need Is Love - She Loves You )
7. Postcards From Paradise (everything)
8. COOKIES! (Early 1970/Ringo - Hold On /John)
9. But you, point the way, to the truth when you say All You Need Is Love (All Those Years Ago - All You Need Is Love )
10. Christmas Time Is Here Again ... Ain't been round since - last year! (Christmas 1968 / Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
11. Never Without You (Within You Without You , Here Comes The Sun , All Things Must Pass , I Dig Love , Here Today )
And in the end
The love you take is equal to the love you make
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13 Callbacks or references to past canonical songs in Beatles/solo
1. The walrus was Paul (Glass Onion - I Am The Walrus )
2. Love is more than just holding hands (If I Fell - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
3. See how they fly like Lucy in the sky (I Am The Walrus - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds )
4. We all know Olba-di, Blah-dah (Savoy Truffle - Obla-di, Obla-da)
5. She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah (What's That You're Doing? -Paul)
6. She loves you yeah yeah yeah (All You Need Is Love - She Loves You )
7. Postcards From Paradise (everything)
8. COOKIES! (Early 1970/Ringo - Hold On /John)
9. But you, point the way, to the truth when you say All You Need Is Love (All Those Years Ago - All You Need Is Love )
10. Christmas Time Is Here Again ... Ain't been round since - last year! (Christmas 1968 / Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
11. Never Without You (Within You Without You , Here Comes The Sun , All Things Must Pass , I Dig Love , Here Today )
12. Sgt. Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
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