Literary Devices in Music (IG-8)

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"Smooth like butter, like a criminal undercover" -Butter, BTS

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Simile

Front

"You're the face of the future, the blood in my veins, oh-ooh" - Believer, Imagine Dragons

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Idiom

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"You're hot when you're cold, yes then no, wrong when right" - Hot N Cold, Katy Perry

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Paradox

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"That you were Romeo, you were throwin' pebbles... And my daddy said, 'Stay away from Juliet'" - Love Story, Taylor Swift

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Allusion

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“And I think to myself, What a wonderful world.” - Louis Armstrong

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Alliteration

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"You were the shadow to my light. Did you feel us? Another start" - Faded, Alan Walker

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Rhetorical Question

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"I'm a man of three fears: Integrity, faith, and Crocodile tears" - Bad Liar, Imagine Dragons

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Rule of three

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BTS lyrics: 'Peaches and cream, sweeter than sweet, chocolate cheeks and wings, but your wings are the devil’s. Before your sweetness, there is bitter.'

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Metaphor