Poetic devices in taylor swift songs

1. Poetry & Taylor Swift!
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2. • Did you know that many ofTaylor Swift’s
songs use POETRYTERMS?
• The UNDERLINED words (on the next slides)
are the poetic devices.
• How many of these lyrics do you recognize?

3. “Losing him was blue
like I’d never known,
missing him was dark
gray all alone…but
loving him was red.”
(From “Red”)

4. “Cause you were
Romeo, I was the
Scarlett Letter, and
my daddy said ‘Stay
away from Juliet.’”
(From “Love Story”)

5. “And you call me up again just to
break me like a promise.”
(From “AllTooWell”)

6. “You’re just another picture to burn.”
(From “Picture to Burn”)

7. “You and I are paintin’
pictures in the sky.”
(From “I’m Only MeWhen I’m
withYou”

8. Great job!
• What areYOUR favorite
song lyrics? Do you
think any of them use
poetic devices?
• Remember, we just saw
THESE devices:
imagery, allusion, simile,
metaphor, alliteration