In A Manner Of Speaking
Anna Vetter
This is an AOL instant messenger conversation between a couple of vapid teenyboppers.
Each statement followed by a (number1/number2) clues a song, all of the other statements are flavortext. Each song title is an example of a specific literary device (example: like a virgin ⇒ simile)
The length of the literary device word is clued by number2. number1 is the letter in the device word we care about to get the final answer.
letter | device | ##/## | song | artist |
---|---|---|---|---|
F | personification | (8/15) | video killed the radio star | buggles |
L | alliteration | (2/12) | wild wild west | will smith |
O | oxymoron | (1/8) | black hole sun | soundgarden |
W | foreshadowing | (10/13) | she'll come back to me | cake |
E | metaphor | (2/8) | i am a rock | simon and garfunkel |
R | parallelism | (3/11) | truly madly deeply | savage garden |
C | synecdoche | (8/10) | it's all about the benjamins | puff daddy |
H | apostrophe | (9/10) | mr. blue sky | electric light orchestra |
I | simile | (2/6) | like a virgin | madonna |
L | hyperbole | (8/9) | the most beautiful girl in the world | prince |
D | paradox | (5/7) | flying without wings | ruben studdard |
R | portmanteau | (3/11) | californication | red hot chili peppers |
E | repetition | (2/10) | tonight tonight | smashing pumpkins |
N | assonance | (5/9) | hole in my soul | aerosmith |
In order, when reading the clued letters in order, gives "flower children" or "hippies" (the final answer word)