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Literary Devices Used In Bohemian Rhapsody
In Bohemian Rhapsody the band sings about doing what is right, but the song also has a dark meaning, in this song the artists sings about a man who committed a murder and was sent to defend himself in the court, it is in the line “Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me!” that it is hinted that he sold his soul to the devil, whom he later regrets doing and was showing anger at the last verse of the song before the outro, the artist is trying to give us the long lasting impression of this song to us by hinting these themes in the song.
This theme is revealed through several literary devices, in the beginning of the song, he is in denial of the fact that he killed a man as seen in the lines “Is this the real life? Is this just

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