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What are songs with onomatopoeia in the lyrics? The song also has to have other literary devices such as simile and metaphor.

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Hint: The method of making a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or implies the sound it represents is known as onomatopoeia. An onomatopoeia is an expression that usually sounds like something else. Animal noises like "oink," "roar," "meow," and "chirp" are typical onomatopoeias.

Complete answer:
Song 1: Firework by Katy Perry
Onomatopoeia:
She imitates the sound of fireworks by saying things like "Boom, boom, boom."
"After a hurricane comes a rainbow," she said, which may be seen as an analogy with things improving after hardship.

Simile:
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?" she says, which may be a simile or a personification (depending) because, you know, no one feels like a plastic bag; she's actually comparing feeling like a plastic bag to feeling worthless.

Metaphor:
“Cause baby you’re a firework.” A firework is a large explosion of colourful flames that, as Perry put it so elegantly, "burst through the sky." They're noisy, dynamic, energetic, colourful, and so on. Perry wants her audience to be all of these things in this metaphor.

Note: Onomatopoeias are phrases that are both beneficial and sensory relaxing. Their ability to generate interpretation comes from their ability to imitate the sounds they represent. Since text may only express sensory information through the process of imagination, authors may sometimes want to use onomatopoeia to communicate a more precise message.