Keyword: «syntactic repetition»
Author:
Larisa Tatanova
Larisa Tatanova
The article deals with the stylistic and content analysis of Bon Jovi song lyrics. A small number of most popular songs of the iconic American rock band are viewed within the context of acute social and inter-personal problems they raise and cultural associations they evoke. The role and functions of emotionally colored syntactic and lexical devices frequently used by the songwriters are also in the focus of the given paper.
Keywords:
metaphor, allusion, trope, framing, simile, stylistic device, epithet, anaphora, gradation, pun, bon jovi, syntactic repetition, anadiplosis, zeugma