Week 10

For this post I focused on a few of my favorite music artists to look at Figures of Speech. The first artist I looked at was the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In the song "Snow", they use an Anaphora when in their chorus they use the word "The" to start each verse of that chorus. The lines go " The more I see, The less I know, The more I like to let it go." As they repeatedly "The". Jay-Z also uses an Anaphora when in his song "Encore" he says "I came, I saw, I conquered." He repeatedly uses I at the beginning of each sentence. Adele also uses a Figure of Speech when she uses a Hyperbole to exaggerate calling her lover when she says "I must have called a million times." She uses that in her song "Hello". These are just a few instances in which artists use Figures of Speech in their work. When artists use figure of speech they are trying to get a message across, something that they have encountered or something that they have been through, they just put a little twist on it. I never really payed attention to the use of Figures of Speech in music until I really started paying attention to it and reading the lyrics for this post, but there are a lot of uses for Figures of Speech in music.