War is brutal, animalistic, and goes against human reason. “Civil War” by Guns N’ Roses is a anti-war protest song about how war only creates more hate and how it has been going on for so long and no change has occurred. The song presents examples of anaphora, allusion. and personification in order to set the tone, include multiple perspectives, and to highlight diction which creates pathos.
Anaphora, which means the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. In the song there is an example where he says “Look at the hate we’re breeding. Look at the fear we’re feeding. Look at the lives we’re leading.” In these lyrics, there is a repetition of “Look at the...” therefore clearly the authors …show more content…
In this case there were two. For instance, “"What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach… So, you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it! Well, he gets it! N' I don't like it any more than you men." which is from a movie called Cool Hand Luke directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Another one is when it mentions "WE PRACTICE SELECTIVE ANNIHILATION OF MAYORS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. FOR EXAMPLE TO CREATE A VACUUM. THEN WE FILL THAT VACUUM AS POPULAR WAR ADVANCES PEACE IS CLOSER" ** and this piece is from “Peruvian Guerilla General”. Attribution is used to make the readers or listeners make references in their mind and link them to each other. By doing so this makes it stay in their head, which is the goal and soon they will realize the meaning and have different point of views. Furthermore, the different perspectives creates connections to support the writer’s statement in a way demonstrating how more than one person agrees to whatever the point may be. Accordingly, having outside sources emphasizes on words of wisdom being given.
Another device is personification, which is when one gives human qualities to an object or animal. In this case, in the song it says “look at the lies we swallowed” Writers use personification to make something inanimate important in the sense that it is worded to catch the reader’s attention
Anaphora, which means the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. In the song there is an example where he says “Look at the hate we’re breeding. Look at the fear we’re feeding. Look at the lives we’re leading.” In these lyrics, there is a repetition of “Look at the...” therefore clearly the authors …show more content…
In this case there were two. For instance, “"What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach… So, you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it! Well, he gets it! N' I don't like it any more than you men." which is from a movie called Cool Hand Luke directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Another one is when it mentions "WE PRACTICE SELECTIVE ANNIHILATION OF MAYORS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. FOR EXAMPLE TO CREATE A VACUUM. THEN WE FILL THAT VACUUM AS POPULAR WAR ADVANCES PEACE IS CLOSER" ** and this piece is from “Peruvian Guerilla General”. Attribution is used to make the readers or listeners make references in their mind and link them to each other. By doing so this makes it stay in their head, which is the goal and soon they will realize the meaning and have different point of views. Furthermore, the different perspectives creates connections to support the writer’s statement in a way demonstrating how more than one person agrees to whatever the point may be. Accordingly, having outside sources emphasizes on words of wisdom being given.
Another device is personification, which is when one gives human qualities to an object or animal. In this case, in the song it says “look at the lies we swallowed” Writers use personification to make something inanimate important in the sense that it is worded to catch the reader’s attention