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User-submitted examples of rhetorical devices in pop songs What is #PopRhetoric? Recently we set a challenge to our followers on Twitter: each week we'd give them a different rhetorical device and they'd send us their favorite song lyrics that use it.
Dec 20, 2023 · A rhetorical ploy is a type of persuasive technique used to influence an audience. It involves the use of language, arguments, and strategies to advance an argument or persuade an audience. Examples of rhetorical ploys include loaded language, false evidence, and fallacies.
Apr 21, 2024 · There are about as many examples as there are feelings: Appeal to ridicule; Scare tactics; Appeal to pity, guilt or compassion; Appeal to popularity; Some rhetorical ploys appeal to our attractions rather than our emotions. For example, a soda ad featuring a supermodel uses physical attraction to bypass our reasoning.
If the artist or writer is comparing or portraying a person, action, feeling, place, or thing as being something else, then they are utilizing a metaphor. Here are 10 examples of metaphors from popular music.
- In this song, the singer berates his significant other, comparing her to a dog that just won’t leave him alone.
- In this song, Brooks is comparing something as simple as a one-song dance to life. He says that we could avoid the pain of losing people, but he wo...
- In this country classic, Lonestar sings to their children while they are away on tour. The band compares themselves to the daily things that their...
- In this song, the Eagles compare the fickle, temporary, and false nature of all the glamor found out west in Hollywood-land to that of a short-stay...
- In this song from the 90s, the R&B trio each takes a turn telling a story about someone who got caught up in something that hurt him. It was a meta...
- Ever the romantic, Michael Buble uses his song Everything to tell his wife that she means everything to him. He compares her to multiple things thr...
- Katy’s anthem of self-love is a great example of metaphors and similes. The overarching metaphor is that everyone is a firework: unique, special, a...
- In this dance classic, she compares herself to one of the strongest metals. She is showing that no matter what you throw at her, or how much you tr...
- Here, Poison is taking a popular metaphor and putting it to song. Just like the flower that is so beautiful and beloved, this woman has a side that...
- In this sometimes overlooked Disney classic, Mulan leaves her family and acts like a man to keep her father from war. This metaphor compares how sh...
Jul 9, 2024 · In this article, we’ll explore some key examples of rhetorical devices that you can incorporate into your own writing to captivate and persuade. By the end, you’ll see how these techniques quietly work behind the scenes to make words come alive.
Nov 16, 2023 · Rhetorical devices can be roughly classified into three different groups: Sound-related rhetorical devices: these figures of speech take advantage of a word or phrase’s rhythmic or phonetic sound. The most famous examples are alliteration, assonance and puns.
Dec 19, 2023 · The best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction make extensive use of figurative language. It’s the most effective way to get certain points across. Songs do this too! Here are 21 of the best songs with figurative language of all time. Note how well written they are and how memorable the songs became. 1.
