In Bruce Cockburns Hoop Dancer, a song written in 1979 from the album The Trouble With Normal, he makes the case that the 20th century is destroying the culture of Indian tribes leading to an unsure future using these rhetorical devices: personification, hyperbole, anaphora, and simile. Personification is one rhetorical device used in the line, “the echoes of this laugh fade.” The line references that the joyous times of thriving Native American tribes are fading away as the 20th century rolls on. Memories are all that are left of the Native American’s true culture. Another device,hyperbole, depicts the bustling life of the 20th century, “drums and voices blend with endless rain.” The rain isn't never-ending but symbolizes and emphasizes that