Rihanna Rhetorical Devices

They costume domestic violence by using beautiful Fox and passionate love making, to turn the violence into something almost resulting from too strong of love. Too many young men and women will find this all provocatively sexy. The video portrays the woman looking beautiful, even while being choked; the man tortured by his rage, longing for love and peace, and believing that if only the woman would behave, then the man would retreat to serenity (Meyers). This however is not the real perception people should be seeing, imagining, or believing. Abuse is not love in any shape or form, but to subjective people who don’t completely analyze the situation, it almost makes it look like in this case domestic violence can be tolerated and justified. This is not the message we should be sending to people in these types of situations or to some who may be faced with them later in life. Domestic violence is already a huge problem in today’s society. This song is not to blame for all of it, but I’m sure it add’s to the numbers involved.

Imagery is used by many writers and this is when the writer uses visually descriptive or figurative language.

Your first thought is the love between the couple is toxic and lethal yet, he cannot resist his partner. But, really it is a reference to Cocaine. Cocaine is given a female voice. He uses personification by bringing the drug to life, where it can communicate with him and become part of his life. He knows that this “girl” meaning, Cocaine is going to be the death of him. While in use of Cocaine he gets numb. “But at least we’ll both be beautiful and stay forever young/ This I know, (yeah) this I know” (3-4). You say again, that he is singing about how the love is so very satisfying. But he is actually meaning that his desire for this young and beautiful woman makes him feel good. He feels as if he is invincible when he has her. Even though he seems to be aware of the consequences that come with feeling young and beautiful; with the use of Cocaine. “She told me, ‘Don’t worry about it.’/ She told me, ‘Don’t worry no more.’/ We both knew we can’t go without it/ She told me you’ll

In line 7 (“He isn’t an enemy now”) the speaker is telling herself that she should not be dwelling on the past because her ex can’t hurt her anymore. The “bitch” seems to be doing fine in controlling her emotions until line 9 when her ex-lover asks her: ““How are the children? They must be growing up.” An immediate change of tone occurs here. There is an internal struggle going on between her heart and her mind. The speaker’s mind is telling her to be polite to her ex, forget the past and move on. The bitch’s heart, on the other hand, is keeping her from moving on and causing her to struggle with feelings of desire. This is clear, for example, in lines 10-13: “At a kind word from him... Down, girl! Keep your distance.” The speaker knows that if she accidentally gets to close to this ex-lover by having feelings again, she will only end up getting hurt. Kind words and gestures can often be deceiving and I have learned that unfortunately charming people are dangerous. I have been hurt numerous times by such personalities by only looking at their kind side and ignoring other flaws. The bitch is warning herself to not get caught up in this trap of feelings again.

And rub it in so deep, salt in the wound like you're laughing right at me

Moreover, her delivery of these lyrics are done in a soft melodic, song-like style over a smooth beat that juxtaposes beautifully with her fierce words. It mirrors her acceptance over the situation and proud reclamation of her body. When I mentioned that this album is about black love, it was not done with romantic relationships in mind. It was done in the vein of self-love, however, I feel that the term black love encapsulates the love of one self already even though most consider love to involve another person. Junglepussy internalizes this assessment of love with herself as a woman and the color of her skin.

To understand Tolkien 's use of imagery, one must understand imagery as a concept. "Imagery refers to words that trigger the mind of a reader to recall images, or mental pictures, that engage one of the five senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch" (Poxon). "There are two common types of images: literal and figurative" (Poxon). A literal image represents a "literal object or sensation. Its meaning is obvious and realistic and

Including assonance and rhyming couplets, Ariana makes this song sound like a love poem. What this ballad proves to the audience is that this message comes off as heartfelt and

Beyonce’s view on this song and how she interpreted or wanted it to be interpreted goes along with the words

As one can see, this song is about love. Some lyrics in this song show that no matter what two people could be going through in life, love will always be there. Love is not a walk in the park, there are many obstacles, but the physical attraction will always be there. This emotional love song is personal, but it is also telling a love story. The lyrics are showing how powerful and authentic love can be in relationships or in general. Falling in love is not something that can be planned, and that’s exactly what Rihanna did not do. She did not plan to fall in love with her lover. Falling for someone is something that happens. The attraction and time spent with her lover caused her to

Stone’s beautiful voice. “Love Me” sets the tone with an initial beat that grabs you, its lyrics may suggest a conventional love song: “Love me from your heart/Love me from your soul/Take me as the one you chose,” but both the laid back beat, some lyrics like “Now don't give me those eyes/It's meaning less, please hide it” and the powerful voice overlay all bespeaks her passion. The theme of love continues, albeit failed and abusive love in: ”This Ain’t Love.” The music punctuates the meaning of each phrase with almost visceral power: “Baby can you hear this sound/All the arguments are screaming out/This ain't love that we've found at all, at all/Baby won't you realize/You know that I'm not your prize/Why we wasting our time/To me you're nothing at all.” It’s gut-wrenching, painful stuff and Ms. Stone is just a tad in your face with it as is appropriate from the perspective of the abused partner. This mix of layered sounds, rhythms paced to meaning and that great soulful voice of Ms. Stone’s are the essence of the magic of this album. While I typically immerse myself in any album I review, I’ve probably listened to this one at least couple dozen times. Each stanza, every turn of phrase and lilt of guitar or punch of drum come together to give a

Rihanna has always been an incredible singer. She always sings beautiful, even if she is singing with someone else. “Stay” is probably one of her songs that has the most message. In the song “Stay” it was emotional, significant and well written. In Rihanna and Micky Ekko’s hit song “Stay,” there is a lot of emotions throughout the song.

The first few verses of the songs suggest that there can be much uncertainty when beginning a new relationship. Sia writes, “There’s two of us / We’re bristling with desire / The pleasure’s pain and fire/ Burn me” (Line 5-8). This suggests that both persons want their love to flourish even

Rihanna is looking for love and trying to move on in her life, reports Inquisitr. The Barbadian singer wants to focus more time on finding a partner who will really love and support her. She wants a real man in her life who would not consider her as a mere hookup. RiRi is taking a hiatus from her career and those close to her say that this is the perfect time for

Next let’s have a look at imagery which is words that appeal to our five senses to create a vivid