Ключевое слово: «lexical innovation»

This paper analyses the lexical and rhetorical devices used in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical (2015). It focuses on anachronism, irony, metaphor, antithesis, and parallelism to demonstrate how modern language is used not just for stylistic effect, but to reshape historical storytelling. By examining key lines from the libretto, the study demonstrates how these techniques turn a traditional biography into an active dialogue between past and present. The article shows that Hamilton uses language to explore who gets to be remembered in history and how national memory is constructed through narrative choices.