Red” by Taylor Swift includes many literary devices to convey a highly strong message. The most important literary devices the artist uses are personification, symbolism and hyperbole. Primarily, the artist uses personification to show the problem encountered in her life. Personification is the attributes of human traits, emotion and form applied to something nonhuman. It is used to give writing life, and relate ideas and objects to humans, which is more effective to convey the author’s message. Taylor Swift says “Passionate as sin ending so suddenly “ in line 2. Personification is used greatly to emphasize and describe where things went wrong.
