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Literary Devices in Pop Songs #2
Literary Devices in Pop Songs #2
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Students identity various literary devices by means of pop music
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1
"I’m never gonna dance again /
Guilty feet
have got no rhythm" -- George Michael
Hyperbole
Personification
Understatement
Alliteration
2
"She wore a
raspberry beret
, The kind you find in a second hand store" -- Prince
Imagery
Rhyme
Metaphor
Anaphora
3
"Ain't no river wide enough / To keep me from getting to you babe" -- Marvin Gaye/T Terrell
Apostrophe
Rhyme
Understatement
Hyperbole
4
"The storms are
r
aging on the
r
olling sea / And on the highway of
r
egret" -- Adele
Alliteration
Understatement
Metaphor
Assonance
5
"Days pass and
this emptiness fills my heart
" -- Peter Gabriel
Assonance
Allusion
Paradox
Onomatopoeia
6
I got you to
hold my hand /
I got you to
understand /
I got you to
walk with me" -- Cher
Alliteration
Anaphora
Hyperbole
Apostrophe
7
"I tried to be
chill
, but you're so
hot
that I melted" -- Jason Mraz
Apostrophe
Antithesis
Personification
Onomatopoeia
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BONUS:
"Now you're
tire tracks and one pair of shoes
/ And I'm split in half, but that'll have to do" -- Noah Kahan
anadiplosis
hypophora
zeugma
synecdoche
