Today we’re covering our penultimate folklore poem with Illicit Affairs. Uncle Jerry finds this song fits perfectly within the category of folklore, and shows us just how Taylor Swift’s use of language showcases the lack of love in this song.


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Works Cited:

Interlocutor

Imperative verb

Dramatic irony

The Book of Jonah

Synecdoche

The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost

Aphorism

Assonance

Alliteration

*The Pleasure of the Text – Roland Barthes

Anaphora

Synesthesia

Sonnet 138 – William Shakespeare

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix


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