Music Make You Lose Control
The repetition in Beyoncé’s song, 7/11 (2014), she has the line, “Shoulders sideways, smack it, smack it in the air…”
What is Alliteration?
“What kind of concert only costs 45 cents? A 50 Cent concert featuring Nickelback.”
What is a Pun?
In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the line, "Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use."
What is Anachronism?
The Petrarchan and Shakespearian forms of poetry.
What is a Sonnet?
"His smile is kryptonite to me."
What is Allusion?
The repetition in Kendrick Lamar's King Kunta (2015), he states, "King Kunta everybody wanna cut the legs off him"
What is Consonance?
There was a period in which Ryan Reynolds, Matthew McConaughey, and even Sandra Bullock where typically cast in romcoms.
What is Portmanteau?
Franz Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis (1915), is about a young man who inexplicably turns into a human-sized insect and relates to human isolation.
What is Allegory?
In Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem, The Raven (1845), he writes, “… Eagerly I wished the morrow; -- vainly I had sought to borrow / From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore…”
What is Internal Rhyme?
After receiving a freezer burn, Sophia let out a silent scream. When her mother asked if she was ok, Sophia chuckled, "It felt terribly good but, now I could use a stiff drink!"
What is Oxymoron?
In Childish Gambino’s song, Sweatpants (2014), he raps the line, “Ain’t nobody sicker in my Fisker, vroom-vroom ho / Ain’t nobody-- / (Fiskers don’t make noise when they start up, just so you know)”
What is Onomatopoeia?
In Ridley Scott’s iconic film, Blade Runner (1982), Roy Batty’s monologue consists of this famous line, “All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in the rain.”
What is Smilie?
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury is considered an anti-censorship novel, and yet, it is one of the most consistently banned books in the United States.
What is Irony?
In the poem To My Wife (2010), by George Wolff, he writes, “If love is like a bridge / or maybe like a grudge..."
What is Half Rhyme?
"Cough up the dough"
What is Eye Rhyme?
In Hank Williams’s song, Hey Good Lookin’ (1953) he sings, “Say hey, good lookin’. Whatcha got cookin’?”
What is Assonance?
In Mark Twain’s famous novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), he writes the line “[They] covered themselves with dust and glory.”
What is Zeugma?
Virginia Woolf’s novel, To the Lighthouse (1927), consists of two parts, one before World War I and the other afterwards with no mention of any events in between.
What is Ellipsis?
In Robert Frost’s poem, Stopping By Woods on Snowy Evening (1923), he writes, “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep.”
What is Antanaclasis?
The phrase "boots on the ground"
What is Synechdoche?
Simon & Garfunkel’s famous song, Sound of Silence (1966), starts off with the line, “Hello Darkness, my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again”
What is Apostrophe?
In the Brian De Palma’s infamous movie, Scarface (1983), Tony Montana states, “Me? I always tell the truth, even when I lie.”
What is Paradox?
In John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939), he writes, “Then I’ll be all aroun’ in the dark. I’ll be ever’where – wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there… An’ when our folk eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build – why, I’ll be there…”
What is Epistrophe?
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem, Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), he writes, “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, / Agape they heard me call.”
What is Cacophony?
"Nothing is worse than nothing"
What is Epanalepsis?