Diary ft Marsha Ambrosuis By Wale

Rhetorical Question

• You wouldn’t hear me out anyways would you?

• No answer is needed because he already knows that the girl will prejudge him and won’t give him a chance.

Figurative Language

• Got me goin’ down that road

• He’s not literally going down a road. It’s something he’s going through mentally and emotionally.

Metaphor

• Heart made of stone He is comparing her emotional detachment, cold, and overprotective characteristics to a stone

Conflict- Person vs. Society

Every problem that you ever had with

Another man I gotta face

He has to struggle with finding a girl, because society has created a bad image for him. Based off of this stereotype, assumptions are made and girls are afraid to commit to him because of it. He’s fighting society to see him as an individual.

Assonanance

• I wonder why I sit and cry

why and cry all have the same “y” sound

Black girl is a character that represents the idea of black women who hold grudges from past relationships

Flat Character

Black girl

Conflict: Person vs. SelfWish I could live with no

fearThe only thing holding the

woman from being in a committed relationship is her fear. It’s a problem she has with herself.

Conflict: Person vs. Self

The only thing holding the woman from being in a committed relationship is her fear. It’s a problem she has with herself.

Wish I could live with no fear

Repetion

I wonder why I sit and cry wish I could shed all these tears I’m down and out I’ll keep on moving and tryna get out

I don’t know how to move on Where I went wrond Wish I could live with no fear So down and out I’ll keep it moving and tyna get out somehow

This repeats in the song because it is emphasizing the woman’s pain and struggle to be in a healthy relationship

Pun

What I do is I channel my aggression with no cable or antenna

He is playing with the meaning of channel, first using it to focus his aggression, then says cable or antenna having to do with channels on tv.

Personification

Can buy more time for your ears to tell your heart to listen to it

This is personification because nobody’s ears can talk, and nobody’s heart is capable of listening.