Katy Perry Similes

Katy Perry has a unique way of sending messages through her lyrics whether it’s to inspire someone or to tell a story. Perry loves to use many different types of figurative language from personifications to metaphors, hyperboles and especially similes. In the song “Firework” by Katy Perry, which is especially important because it is written to inspire people to be/believe in themselves Perry uses these poetic devices to make sure her audience connects to her lyrics.
When Perry states, “Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin / like a house of cards / one blow from caving in” (4-6), Perry uses a simile to compare two things while using ‘like’ in this case Perry is comparing paper and cards in the same way by stating that they’re both thin. When she exclaims, “One blow from caving in” (6), Perry is stating that this person might feel weak, in other words he or she is so weak that he or she feels as if they’re is falling apart. The “Do you” at the beginning of lines 1, 4, 7 and 10 indicates that an anaphora is being used for these two words are repeated at the beginning of 4 different clauses. For example a
In other words the plastic bag is another way of stating that a person feels like trash. Or as if they don’t belong because he or she is different, the feelings are being compared to trash or feeling like trash which indicates that he or she is having a rough day. Katy Perry’s song “Firework” uses the meter trochaic more than the song uses anapestic and Iambic. As the lines are viewed and the stressed and unstressed syllables are found, it is easier to determine if each line could be defined as trochaic, iambic, or anapestic. Since more than half of the lyrics from “Firework” contain one accented syllable followed by an unaccented one which indicates that the line is a trochaic