Dark Horse
This song “Dark Horse” can be quite interesting by how much figurative language the song provides. This song uses hyperbole, similes, metaphors, idioms, and onomatopoeia. An example for this is woo in the quote “Woo! Damn I think I love her”. The amount of songs out there that include figurative languages is amazing. There are obviously songs that do not have any figurative language in them.
This song uses about a grand total of five hyperbole related sentences. One will be " 'Cause I'm capable of anything Of anything and everything". Now everyone knows humans can't be capable of everything unless the human is some kind of a superhuman. The next quote shall be "This love will make you levitate". Love can't make people suspend in mid-air. Final hyperbole quote is "She eat your heart out Like Jeffrey Dahmer". She and Jeffrey will never eat people's heart and a hyperbole is an exaggeration of something.
During the song he says "She’s a beast" and he is comparing her to a beast or a monster. Also in the song she will say "Shawty so bad". That will be a metaphor because she will be comparing how crummy Shawty is. The third quote is "She can be my Sleeping Beauty". This is saying if she
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Another reason why this was typed is because while going through the song "Dark Horse" anyone will be able to find about eleven different similes equaling to "She’ll turn cold as a freezer". Also in the first quote the singer is comparing someone he knows to a freezer. He uses cold as a slang word and the slang word cold, means how mean someone is. One more quote for a simile will be "She rides me like a roller coaster" and that is comparing how someone he knows that is using him. Yet another quote from the song will be comparing on how kind she is by saying "She’s sweet as pie". Final quote listing for an simile is "'Cause I’m coming atcha like a dark horse" and in that quote she was comparing herself to a
There a lot of literary devices used in the excerpt from All the Pretty Horses that convey the true meaning in the scene. The hallway the man walks in has portraits of his ancestors whom he vaguely knows. This is connected to the present day when the man who he has gone to see now is also dead. The paragraph also uses figurative language like “yellowed moustache” and eyelids that are “paper thin” to tell us that the man he went to see is dead. The next sentence following that says “That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.” putting emphasis on how the man in front of him isn’t sleeping and is truly dead. It also references the way that death is associated with sleep and called the long sleep. The excerpt also mentioned that the man is
In the first stanza, first line; I saw two trees embracing, this means that there is a couple that is in love. In the second and third line we see that the male is weaker “one leaned on the other, as if to throw her down” and in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh line we notice that the female has the strength, willpower and is dominating. In the second stanza, line one, two and three we see that the female being dominant makes the male feel broken and intimidated. In line four “the most wind-warped, you could see”, hear we see that there is a major problem between the two.
Anger, fear, and hatred all are characteristics of the evil. They are qualities that lurk in every man’s heart, lying dormant like a bat in a cave until the time is ripe to come out and hunt. Some people can hold the bat back, some let the bat go free, and for others the bat is overcome with its freedom that it forgets how to think. Those people, the ones who become drunk on their own freedom, are the ones who become insane. Using foreboding word choice and horrific imagery, Edgar Allen Poe in his short story “The Black Cat” describes the narrator’s diabolic actions to convey the message that untamed anger leads to insanity – even in the most collected individual.
The song has heavily used imagery when stating “And the Legal pads were yellow, hour’s long, pay packet lean. And the telex writers clattered where the gunships once had been.” This is used to explain his stress of coming back to civilization after war and all the things that once traumatized you are now take place in a different way. The song also uses Social Criticism“And she was like so many more from that time on. Their lives were all so empty, till they found their chosen one.” This is used to say that a female’s life is incomplete until they settle down and marry. Cold chisel has added this in to reconnect with their message to show that women are incomplete without their male counterparts and it makes it hard for both people in the relationship after war because of a miscommunication between love and
Did you know that Katy Perry’s Firework music video got 176,758,000 views on YouTube? The Album it was on is Teenage Dream What year was the song released? 2010 Anything interesting about the song?It is the tenth most viewed video on youtube Thesis Statement In Firework, Katy Perry shows that This song shows pride by proving that you should always be yourself by using belonging, courage, and pride.My First Thesis Point is metaphor Metaphor is used in Firework to show that you got to embrace you’re self and not try to be like anyone else. “Cause baby you’re a firework” how your supports your thesis In this quote, Katy Perry is saying that you may have a slow start but that you will take off and do great in life. This is an example of a metaphor
Stephen King uses imagery to describe his personal situations in his journey to the writing career. On page 1, King discusses his experience reading Mary Karr’s memoir The Liars’ Club. He begins to explain his childhood and how it was an “odd, herky-jerky childhood.” Then goes to explain how Karr presents her childhood in her memoir. He compares his childhood to hers by stating his childhood was “a fogged-out landscape from which occasional memories appear like isolated trees . . . the kind that look as if they might like to grab and eat you.” In that statement it states 3 literary elements. The first one is a simile, which is comparing two things using like or as. He compares his memories to isolated trees. The second literary element I see
In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, many different kinds of figurative language is used to develop the setting and mood. In the beginning, the author begins to describe the setting while the main character is on a boat. “The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window.” He used a simile to describe the location. It tells you the sea was flat, which makes it calm, but it is also odd, because the ocean is usually rough and has a lot of waves.
What is figurative language? Figurative language is saying something other than what is meant for effect. For example a metaphor, simile, symbol, hyperbole or personification. In the sermon called Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God and the Iroquois Constitution there is a lot of figurative language.
It is well recognized that rock songs often express the issues society faces in regards to defying convention. When you analyze the lyrics, these artists are portraying a storyline that most listeners can relate to, due to previous or current experiences. For example, Suicidal Tendencies “Institutionalized”, tells a story that all individuals can relate to, considering we all went through those gruesome teenage years.
The poem "Acquainted with the night" by Robert Frost is about a man who is walking through a city at night. However, when analyzing the figurative language used in the poem,such as the extended metaphors and symbolism, it becomes dear that the poem is about the narrator's melacholy and sense of isolation. The narrator is aquainted with the darkness of the soul as much as the night. Frost also uses personification to show how the poem has a human ability.
The author, Sharon Olds, uses similes to show how the different characters are as people, according to the women in the subway cart. For example, Sharon states “he is wearing red, like the inside of the body exposed” and, “I am wearing dark fur, the whole skin of an animal taken and used.” This shows how the women is more privileged than the man across from her. Olds also states, “white in a complex pattern like a set of intentional scars.” This also shows how the colored man has a more complicated like than the woman that sits across from him.
Furthermore, the literary devices of shift, metaphor, and imagery allude to the positive, hopeful attitude of the song within the warning and advice that the speaker gives his friend. The shift between the story (7-15, 22-31) and the conversation shows when the speaker switches from telling to story to the friend and actually talking to the friend. The story helps to put emphasis on the fact that it’s not too late for the “friend” to start over, or “put the past away”. By mentioning this sad story and suggesting for his friend to get help, the singer presents an overall idea of hope; that the “friend” that they are singing (to?) still has a chance at a normal, happy life.
"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury about a group of people who flee Earth to settle on Mars and are alarmed when strange things start happening. Bradbury creates a tense atmosphere through the way he describes Mars, and the events that take place.
In the first stanza, the farm lady happened to meet ‘Melia in town (2). The farm lady was surprised to find how different 'Melia looked and she asked her where she got the “fair garments” (3), which symbolized wealth. 'Melia explains she has “been ruined” (4), meaning that has become a prostitute. In the second stanza, the farm lady remembers ‘Melia’s look while she left the farm and her reasons for leaving. She says that 'Melia left the farm “in tatters” (5) and she left because she was tired of digging potatoes and docks (6).The farm lady then contrasts 'Melia’s previous appearance to the “ruined” one. She says that 'Melia has “gay bracelets and bright feathers three!” (7).The exclamation mark shows that the farm girl was surprised and admired the accessories that 'Melia had. 'Melia then explains that she has to dress that way for her profession.
For example "fire burning in my bones" helps show her struggle or the pain that she has to endure but that she will preserver through her struggles. Also when she uses this phrase "wrecking balls inside my brain" helps over exaggerate how keeping silent has made her eager to speak up. with these examples of Imagery its clear to reader how her pain and struggles maker eager to make a difference which help support the theme of that any one can make a