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My second analyzation for this song I will be using the theory on metaphor and rhetoric, but subheading under that I will be using the explanation of figurative and literal language. To analyze how figurative language is used in this song I will explain how a couple lyrics in this song shows the definition of what figurative language is. Figurative language consists of idioms, metonymies, and metaphors, in which it is the use of words that highlight on the unusual or imaginative. Literal meaning is where you have a word, phrase, lyric, etc. and you can apply it in real life literal terms. In this song it has a lyric for example that states, “Now when I say take your heart I’m not talking robbery”. In literal terms it would mean literally taking
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