Kenny Chesney is a world known musician who sings country music. He sing’s a song called Don’t Blink, it was published in 2007. The song is a popular song and has a special meaning. “Don't Blink” also uses many rhetorical devices two of which are epithet and euphemism. The rhetorical devices used in Kenny Chesney “Don't Blink” are intended to reveal to the listener that in order to realize how fast life goes, the listener needs to stop and take everything in one day at a time.
In “Don’t Blink,” Kenny Chesney uses euphemism, a less offensive word,as a way to reveal that the audience takes life one day at a time so the realize how fast life goes. Kenny say’s “your better half of fifty years” meaning anybody younger than fifty. He says
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He shows the old man in his music video and say’s an old man being interviewed in his lyrics to give the audience a sense of credibility. The old man shows he is doing well and is not sick; however, the audience listens to him because he knows the secrets to life because he has been there and done that and is giving advice on what to do. The man is also turning 102 and it is his birthday, so they are telling you his age because not many people live to that age. Therefore, him doing well helps the audience understand him, and what he is saying about life. So in the song “Don’t Blink” by Kenny Chesney you realize that life goes faster than you think. This makes the audience realize they need to take life one day at a time. The song uses many rhetorical devices; however, I focused on euphemism and epithet. Therefore, the rhetorical devices used in Kenny Chesney “Don’t Blink” are intended to reveal to the listener that in order to realize how fast life goes, the listener needs to stop and take everything in one day at a