Plain and simple, girls look for boys, all the time. They look in stores, on the street, through car windows, in movies. When they find the one they want, they remember, and never forget. In a similar way, a good reader looks for rhetoric, in books, magazines, movies, songs. Once they find that perfect use of hyperbole or parallelism, they write it down, or keep a brain sticky-note, so they don’t forget it.
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Anaphora: “…I’m sorry I’m bad, I’m sorry I’m blue, I’m sorry about all the things I said to you…” [Sorry by Buckcherry]
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Repetition: “I’ve never given much thought to how I would die. But, dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.” [Bella, in Twilight, says this line at the beginning of the movie, and again in the end whenever she might possibly die.]
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Rhetorical Question: “Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?” [Complicated, by Avril Lavigne]
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Parallelism: “…You’re hot then you’re cold, you’re yes then you’re no, you’re in then you’re out, you’re up then you’re down, you’re wrong when it’s right, it’s black and it’s white, we fight we break up, we kiss we make up…”[Hot N Cold by Katy Perry]
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Antimetabole: “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”[title of a song by Fall Out Boy]
