* Examples: "Take care of your words / 'Cause words can be used to cure / Or words can be used to kill"
* Assonance: repetition of the same vowel sound within different words
* Example: "Say what you mean, yeah, mean what you say / Don't forget how to listen or you won't hear a thing"
* Imagery: language that appeals to the senses, creating a mental picture in the reader's mind
* Example: "My soul so old, that mean I'm ancient/ I keep my chain on a glacier"
* Metaphor: a comparison between two unlike things not using the words "like" or "as."
* Example: "The city's a jail and the judges is all corrupt/ My patience just lost its pulse, it don't function no more"
* Personification: giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
* Example: "My mom would've been disappointed but at least she's still alive/ She'd rather see me dead than inside of a prison cell"
* Simile: a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
* Example: "And that's why he's still in our life like a permanent scar"