Another simile appears in the second stanza: “For one split second she almost turned around, but that would be like pouring rain drops back into a cloud”. The simile also symbolizes the pain and heartbreak the narrator is feeling. Underwood compares a tear drop falling from one’s face to a glass falling and breaking on the floor. One example is in the first stanza: “one tear hit the hard wood, it fell like broken glass”. Similes, a comparison of two things using the words like or as, are also portrayed in Wasted. Instead of saying the endings and prefixes Underwood illustrates her southern drawl by changing the way the words are pronounced. Such as “wanna’, gotta, gonna’, cause’, ain’t, and drivin’”. A southern, twangy diction is also evident with the way words are sung. For instance, “she said sometimes love slips away… for one split second… so she took another step and said” all has an alliteration with the letter ‘s’. Some literary and poetic devices Carrie Underwood incorporates into her song Wasted include similes, alliteration, diction, imagery, allusion, and ambiguity.Īlliteration, several words with the reoccurring same consonants, is present multiple times throughout this song. Underwood’s song, Wasted, hit number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs in April 2007, and was a track on the fastest selling album debut in Nielsen Sound Scan history. Carrie Underwood is an extremely talented artist who enhances her compositions by applying literary and poetic devices into her pieces.
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