Star spangled banner
Francis Scott Key used rhyme for the star spangled banner. He describes every detail that was happening. He used bombs bursting in the air to try to put a image in our mind what was happening in that exact moment. He also wrote how it felt, example in the song he wrote ¨ on the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, what is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep¨. It also used a metaphor an example is it says ¨from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave¨.

Francis Scott Key used figurative by using his feeling being there, how it felt and what he saw to make those lyrics. For example he wrote ¨ blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land praise the pow'r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation¨, he wrote that to make us see an image when he saw united states won the war with its power. Another example is what he saw, in the song it says ¨ their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps pollution¨. Also there was a hyperbole in the story behind the star spangled banner, ¨ it says british warships sent a downpour of …show more content…
Key also put another example about how brave they were to fight by saying ¨ o thus be it ever when freemen shall stand between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation! Another example is when he sees the plane with the us flag and writes in the song “ whose broad stripes and bright stars thro the perilous fight”. Another example is when he gets an image in our mind by saying blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land praise the pow'r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation he was trying to make us get a image when they won and made peace. A last example is when the flagged waved through the air and Key wrote in the song “ and the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the