Figurative Language In Madness By Sleeping With Sirens

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“Madness” by Sleeping With Sirens is an expertly crafted song/poem in which the poetic devices help to portray the motif through figurative language,rhyme, and rhythm. Firstly, figurative language portrays a theme of life can be truly terrible sometimes, but it will always become easier. The poem contains hyperbole, metaphors, and a simile. A hyperbole in the poem would be, “Sometimes it's a battle/At times it's a war” (line 7-8) because it really shows the author exaggerating how hard living his life is. A battle and a war are both very tiring, costly, and difficult, so the poet must have used this hyperbole to accentuate the difficulty of life in isolation. Then an example of a metaphor is, “Catch hold of the madness” (line 18) This line