In this episode of The Swiftie and The Scholar, Uncle Jerry and Angela analyze Death By A Thousand Cuts from Taylor Swift's 2019 album, Lover. Uncle Jerry finds literary devices aplenty in the lyrics, and discusses how she uses those devices to deftly handle the storytelling in the poem via indirect characterization.They also discuss the roundabout inspiration of this song and the Swiftie tradition of friendship bracelets.Works Cited:A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare – Affiliate LinkLingchiDeath By A Thousand Cuts – Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue – Aff LinkMandarin SquaresGreat Expectations — Charles Dickens – Aff LinkKyn You Believe It — IDK Traffic LightAnaphora Indirect CharacterizationFollow Us:⁠YouTube⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠Angela's Instagram⁠

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