Repetition
A line or group of lines that regularly reapt
What is a refrain?
You're looking like an angel on the walls of Versailles.
What is Simile?
Drop Dead
We spend the bulk of the album in this location on the plot diagram.
What is "Exposition?"
List the 4 common conflict types?
What is:
Character vs Character
Character vs Nature
Character vs Self
Character vs Society
The rhyme scheme of this song:
I know that the bar closes at 11
But I hope you never finish that beer
You know all the words to "Just Like Heaven"
And I know why he wrote them now that you're standin' right here
What is "ABAB?"
Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
What is anaphora?
I'm a heart made of wax and I'm melting in the sun.
What is metaphor?
Stupid Song
This song introduces us to Olivia's world and how in love she is with her soon to be ex.
What is "Drop Dead?"
Of the conflict types, three are external, and this one is internal.
What is character vs self?
On the track "What's Wrong With Me," Olivia uses both standard rhyme as well as this technique:
I'm just staring at the ceiling
Can't describe this feeling I've got in my head
I'm out of body in my bed
And I'm just searching up my symptoms
Desperate to fix 'em, I'll do anything
'Cause lately I've been spiraling, oh
I'm not feeling like myself and
Nothing ever seems to help
What is internal rhyme?
The device being used in "Maggots for Brains":
What can I do
But think of you?
But think of you?
What can I do
But think of you?
But think of you?
What is Refrain?
"But you linger in the air just like bad perfume"
What is simile?
My Way
What is "The Cure?"
What is character vs character?
The album is split into two halves, Girl So in Love & You Seem Pretty Sad. Organize the songs into those two halves. (Drop Dead, The Cure, Purple, Cigarette Smoke, Honeybee, What's Wrong With Me, Stupid Song, Begged, Maggots for Brains, Less, U + Me =<3, My Way, expectations)
GSIL: Drop Dead, Stupid Song, Honeybee, Maggots for Brains, U + Me =<3, My Way, Purple.
YSPS: The Cure, Begged, What's Wrong With Me, Less, Expectations, Cigarette Smoke
Device Being used in "Less":
I wish, I wish, I wish you loved me less
What is Anaphora?
"But it don't matter how your love feels anymore
It'll never be the cure"
What is metaphor?
The Cure
The track "My Way" isn't necessarily at one of the five points on the plot diagram but is between two points and sit at this part of the story.
What is conflict?
What is "Character vs Self?"
On the track "Less" Olivia mentions her first/favorite date, what song also mentions this date?
What is Drop Dead?
Device being used in "Expectations"
But in a couple months (In a couple months)
A man will be procured (This man will be procured)
He will be evolved (He will be evolved)
And I will be adored, adored, adored, adored, adored
What are Anaphora & Refrain?
I'm a penny in a fountain
Just waiting on my luck to change"
What is Metaphor?
Begged
The roller coaster ride is nearly over and the song "Less" eases us into this part of the plot diagram?
If Olivia is our protagonist/main character then these characters would be our antagonists?
Who are Louis/her ex, her ex's ex, and herself?
Not only does Olivia reference her own songs on the track "Cigarette Smoke" but she employs this technique on other tracks as well.
"Some nights can be
Low down and lonely
But it's better than begging for you to stand up for me, honeybee "
What is allusion?