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Rhetorical Device

Irony

Appears in 1 song

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The Tortured Poets Department · 2024

You Holy Ghost

'Holy Ghost' simultaneously evokes a religious invocation (appropriate at a wedding) and modern slang for being ghosted — abandoned without explanation.

Connects the religious imagery of the chorus to the subject's actual behaviour, naming the betrayal through irony.

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