Thursday, December 13, 2012

Images of California Dram in Music


Imagery:  Occurs when an author uses an object that is not really there, in order to create a comparison between one that is, usually evoking a more meaningful visual experience for the reader.

Ex: Song- Hotel California
“In the masters chambers they’re gathered for the feast
 They stab it with their steely knifes but they just can’t
 kill the best”


Irony:  The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Ex: Song- Californication
“Pay your surgeon very well
 To break the spell of aging
 Celebrity skin is this your chin
 Or is that war your waging”


Metaphor: Is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object. Is also a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association or comparison.

Ex: Song- Going to California
“The sea was red and the sky was grey (…) as the children of the sun began to awake”

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