Across
- 1. The “repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence, for vehemence or emphasis.” Example: We are never, ever, ever, ever getting back together (We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together)
- 3. A warning about something that will happen later on in the narrative (usually ominous).Examples:“You said you’d be here” in The Moment I Knew foreshadows that he won’t actually show up. “Skies grew darker” in This Love foreshadows that this relationship won’t end well.
- 9. Two contradictory terms right next to one another.Examples:“I’ve never heard silence quite this loud” –The Story of Us “We’re a crooked love, in a straight line down” –I Wish You Would
- 10. A “rhetorical device that compounds words or phrases that have equivalent meanings so as to create a definite pattern.” Example: You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath (All Too Well, 10 minute version)
- 14. A “figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.”Example: Bad was the blood of the song in the cab on your first trip to L.A. (Invisible String — with a bonus allusion to Taylor’s own work!)
- 15. The “deliberate insertion of conjunctions into a sentence” to slow the rhythm of the prose. Example: ’Til we were dead and gone and buried (All Too Well, 10 minute version)
- 16. The “repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words.”Example: I polish plates until they gleam and glisten (tolerate it)
- 17. A “figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.” Example: Karma is my boyfriend / karma is a god / karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend (Karma)
- 18. A “resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables…between their vowels.” Example: Ooh, look what you made me do (Look What You Made Me Do)
Down
- 2. The “repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.” Example: It feels like a perfect night / For breakfast at midnight (22)
- 4. The “simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis.” Example: I forget their names now / I’m so very tame now / Never be the same now, now (…Ready for It?)
- 5. Often “sentences [that are] interrupted midway, where there is a change in the syntactical structure of the sentence.” Example: Look what you just made me — Ooh, look what you made me do (Look What You Made Me Do)
- 6. A “figure of speech that directly compares two things” using “comparison words such as ‘like’, ‘as’, ‘so’, or ‘than’.” Example: When I felt like I was an old cardigan / under someone’s bed / you put me on and said I was your favorite (cardigan)
- 7. The “juxtaposed repetition of words with similar roots or speech sounds within a phrase or sentence.”Example: That you never loved me, or her / Or anyone, or anything (I Knew You Were Trouble)
- 8. A “figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from an unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly.”Example: ’Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter (Love Story)
- 11. Repeating “a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.”Example: Is it cool that I said all that / Is it chill that you’re in my head (Delicate)
- 12. Two dissimilar things side by side, used to emphasize the contrast.Examples:“I’ve been Miss Misery since your goodbye / And you’re Mr Perfectly Fine” –Mr Perfectly Fine “The rest of the world was black and white / And we were in screaming color” –Out of The Woods
- 13. The “use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.” Example: You search in every model’s bed for something greater (Is It Over Now?)