Language Devices
- Colloquialism
Example: See, that’s the hook, and you gotta have a hook. (Here, the word gotta is informal. its use, in this case, constitutes colloquialism)
- Hyperbole
Example: And Dick Cheney is peeing all over himself in spasmodic delight.
- Simile
Example: Like a cross-examination, I will give you the explanation
Example 2: injustice isn’t injustice, it’s just in us as we are just in ice Don't use plagiarised sources.Get your custom essay just from $11/page
- Personification
Example: Greed doesn’t care what color you are. (In this statement, greed is assigned the human attribute of caring).
- Repetition
Example 1: Because somewhere in Florida, votes are still being counted. (This statement is repeated twice in the peace).
Example 2: see, that’s the hook, and you gotta have a hook. More than the look, it’s the hook that’s the most important.
- Satire
In the piece, Mali describes the hypocrisy and deceitful of politicians.
- Symbolism
Example 1: Filled with people who wear guns on their hips. (In this case, guns are used as symbols of violence or state oppression).
- Tone
Example: As if communism were the opposite of democracy
The above statement and many others give a humorous tone. Mali appears to be mocking politicians in this case.
- Assonance
Example 1: More than the look, it’s the hook that’s the most important. (In this sentence, look and hook follow each other closely and have the same vowel sound. Besides, they start with different letters. This constitutes assonance).
- Rhyme
Example:
Because I have seen the disintegration of gentrification
And can speak with great articulation
About cosmic constellations, and atomic radiation
I’ve seen D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation
But preferred 101 Dalmations
Like a cross examination, I will give you the explanation
Of why SlamNation is the ultimate manifestation
Of poetic masturbation and egostistical ejaculation
In the above stanza, the first to the last sentence end with the following word: gentrification, articulation, radiation, Nation, Dalmations, explanation, manifestation, and ejaculation, respectively. These words have similar sounds, and they occur at the end of the sentences.
- Consonance
Example: political poem. (In this case, both political and poem begin with consonant sounds, and they follow each other).