Taylor Swift Language Techniques Flashcards
“They’ll be chasing their tails trying to track us down”
Alliteration
“Running like water”
Simile
“I hit you like, BANG!”
Onomatopea
“Roaring twenties tossing pennies in the pool”
Assonance
“Just between us did the love affair maim you too?”
Rhetorical Question
“I still remember the first fall of snow”
Pathetic Fallacy
“I ask the traffic lights if it’ll be alright they say “I don’t know”
Personification
“Thats the kind of heartbreak time could never mend”
Hyperbole
“I am an architect, I’m drawing up the plans”
Metaphor
“Wind in my hair, I was there, I was there”
Repetition
“I think about jumping (…) just to see you come running”
Connotations (of suicide)
“I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want
Just not home.”
Emotive Language
“Did I deserve Babe, all the hell you gave me?”
Rhetorical Question
“He was sunshine, I was midnight rain”
Metaphor
“I still remember the smell of the rain”
Pathetic Fallacy
