Greenday Figurative Language

Lauryn Hill’s poem “Motives and Thoughts” sheds particular light on the follies of society including overlooking the evil motives of its leaders and even its citizens through the use of poetic devices and figurative language. This 51-line poem touches on the subject of conspiracy and requires the reader to take a look at herself to determine what her motivation is for engaging in types of activity to gain power or desires and to look at the motives and thoughts of the leaders whom she follows. Hill uses several poetic devices and figurative language to enhance the meaning of her poem by placing emphasis on certain words to capture her audience’s attention including repetition, rhyme, allusion, metaphors, paradox, and oxymoron to reveal the central issues of deception while uncovering minor themes of downfall due to pride and spirituality. Hill uses allusion and metaphors throughout

Outline: Introduction: Boy and girl fall in love and they try to change themselves to fit into each other’s lifestyles.

“I gave my all for you, now my heart's in two.” This line shows how the speaker put their heart on the line and a girl broke his heart. The song explains how the speaker is done with this girl and is moving on and never wants to talk to them again. The theme is important in this song and the speaker gets it across very effectively. The songwriter was also very good at using figurative language. This paints a picture in the reader’s head and makes the song easier to understand. The song S.O.S. by The Jonas Brothers uses good figurative language, has a great theme, and shows how the speaker moved on. Connect the thesis and introduction. Put the paragraphs in order of the thesis.

Ilian Garcia Gautam Emani ENGL-111G-M06 September 22, 2014 Rhetorical Analysis Green Day: Working Class Hero Green Day released a John Lennon cover song “Working Class Hero” the album was used to control the power of Lennon's music to inspire a new generation of activists to stand up for human rights. Through the lyrics Green Day communicates how members of the working class brought up and processed by the government. In this way the song is done to agree with the change of generation, definitely they had a large portion of his audience positively respond to his message. In the lyrics of “Working Class Hero” Green Day represents having full knowledge as to what the working class must encounter throughout their lives.

“Breakdown” Figurative Language Analysis “Breakdown” by Jack Johnson uses many figurative language techniques such as metaphors, personification, hyperboles, alliteration, and even assonance. Today, I will elaborate on three of my favorite examples of figurative language used in “Breakdown” - a narrative song about wishing for life to be over, seeing as all we ever seem to do is waste it - beginning with the technique known as a hyperbole, then personification, and finally, alliteration. The first one of these that appears in the song is a hyperbole exemplified in the first line, “I hope this old train breaks down”. Here, the narrator isn’t being literal, so you could also see it as a metaphor for life, but if you are to look at the lyrics

How hard would it be to live in a house with parents that beat you if you don’t do chores? Unstoppable is about an orphan boy named Harrison that lives in a very cruel foster home. When people find out that his foster parents, the Constables, are beating and mistreating Harrison, They move him to a new foster home with nice foster parents, the Kellys. Harrison’s new foster dad is the head coach of a football team which was very important to Harrison because his dream is to play professional football in the NFL. Harrison ends up on the team and is immediately unstoppable. But Harrison’s luck can’t last forever.

There are many ways figurative language can be expressed. One way of expressing figurative language is music. Taylor Swift’s song Mean is a good example of this because it contains similes and metaphorical elements. She expresses how other people’s words can emotionally damage ones feelings, “You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me” (Taylor Swift, Mean). This simile is a direct comparison between weapons and words.

In the song Never Again ,you hear multiple parts where the songwriter redirects you towards the holocaust. For example, “moving targets who walk with the star on their sleeve.” During the intro, a man speaks Hebrew and it sounds like a prayer. The author also uses figurative language to emphasize the importance of what happened in the holocaust. He quotes things like, “never again shall we march like sheep to the slaughter…” in addition to, “ stripped of our culture, robbed of our name…” by saying these things he stresses the tragedy of taking orders, and before long, dying like sheep. In the second quote he causes it to be known, how the men, women, and children who received a number appeared as cattle to the authoritarians, not human, nevertheless,

Rat Kiley had told a story of a girl that was shipped to Vietnam and had stayed with them at the camp. Mary Anne Bell had begun as a normal innocent girl that slowly delved into herself and became one with the land disappearing into the forest.

The main purpose of Beyoncé’s songs is to emphasise feminism and invigorate gender equality through her lyrics. She does so by using by conveying feminist philosophy in her lyrics. In Run the World, Beyoncé sings “strong enough to bear the children, then get back to business.” Figurative language is used to express be that women give birth however then after they proceed to work. Throughout the song used is both repetition and rhetorical question as this is how Beyoncé portrays the women empowerment theme, domination as well as confidence in her tone whilst preaching the line “Girls, we run this motha (yeah!)” and “Who run the world? Girls!”. Having expressed the line “My persuasion can build he nation” Beyoncé is building women up by speaking

The Weary Blues, written by Langston Hughes and published in 1926, won Hughes his first poetry prize. Hughes is a well-known African American poet who often wrote about the struggles for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance, he uses figurative language in the poem to describe loneliness and despair, and the relationship between the speaker and performer, in order to make the reader better understand the blues.

Horrid times can bring out the finest in many. These times often include some of the bloodiest wars in history such as the Civil War. A side product of this is music. Accordingly, the Civil War created many amazing music pieces. Examples of these pieces include Bonnie Blue by Harry Macarthy for the south and Shiloh by Darryl Worley. One thing that many Civil War songs that is prevalent is they’re stories.

In the poem “Rock and roll” by sibyl James wants to convince the reader that rock and roll is a dilapidated person that don't care what people think. Rock wouldn't care for the rules of other people rock and roll would do what it wants and won't have a worry about what they did wrong. However, rock would convince people that didn't like it that they would not have a choice but to like it. People around the world think rock and roll is not the epitome of an example they want their kids to be around.

It is a sin for anyone to destroy, in a blink of an eye, what they have been working on for months or even years. Therefore, one should always face the hardships with a strong will, hold their head up high when facing an upcoming storm, because that is the only way they can survive the war that is life. Right towards the end of the song, there is an extremely empowering line that says “this road never looked so lonely, this house doesn’t burn down slowly to ashes” which stands as a reminder that right when the challenge becomes harder, one should never forget what they are fighting for and simply give up. The amount of determination reflected in this line is the reason why I listen to this song whenever I feel defeated by the obstacles. It comes to spark the flame of determination in my heart when I consider backing

In this research, the researcher discusses the figurative language based on Perrine’s perception. According to Perrine (1977:61-109), figurative language consists of 12 kinds, they are: simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, allegory, paradox, hyperbole/overstatement, understatement, and irony.