Imagine Dragons Literary Devices

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In the song ¨Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons, the artist talks about how he is fighting to be free and how he will not stop fighting to be free. Another way to interpret the theme is by seeing it as him saying that the lower class tier of people get treated very poorly. The theme of being free is expressed with multiple types of literary devices, such as hyperbole, metaphors, and similes. To show the theme that he is going to fight to be free, the band Imagine Dragons uses many literary devices. Firstly, Imagine Dragons writes “I’m waking up to ash and dust, I wipe my brow and sweat my rust.” This verse states how he is in bad living conditions. Secondly, the band writes “This is it the apocalypse.” This lyric talks about how this could