We get into A LOT in this episode. Love bombing, toxic relationships, the connections Angela found to other songs that make it clear to her who inspired this song, and car salesmen. Hope you enjoy!

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In Past Tense – Tara Boyd

Patient Zero – Hammerfall

Weasel/Patient Zero – Marvel Universe

Patient Zero – The Outer Limits (2001)

Dramatic Monologue

Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall (The Poldark Saga, 1) – Winston Graham:

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Logos, Pathos, Ethos

Metonymy

Isaiah 6:6-8

Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory

Apophasis

*Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

Canterbury Tales Prologue – Geoffrey Chaucer

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix

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Buckle up, y’all. We’ve got a beefy one for you today! We’re tackling Babylon from Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore. I think we all knew this one would give Uncle Jerry plenty to think about and chew on and teach from, and he did not disappoint. Maybe grab your breakfast or dinner and a nice beverage and get comfy, because this is our longest episode yet.

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The Autobiography of Red – Anne Carson

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Angela’s Reaction Video – The Encore

Professing Literature: An Institutional History – Gerald Graff

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Ancient Babylon

What Does "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin" Mean?

Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Babylon (2022)

Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory

Wild Things (1998)

Where The Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak

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Wild Thing – The Troggs

The Libertine (2004)

Onomatopoeia

Metonymy

Logos, Pathos, Ethos

Dramatic Irony

Miniver Cheevy – Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix

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In this episode, we are taking it back to the very beginning with Tim McGraw from Taylor Swift’s debut album. Uncle Jerry finds plenty to discuss and is charmed by hearing both young Taylor’s early poetics and her country twang.

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Tug McGraw

In medias res

Free indirect discourse

Alliteration

Metonymy

Signposting

Rasselas – Samuel Johnson

Palimpsest

Enjambment

Frame story or frame structure

Leitmotif

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