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Conceits In Jenni Rivera's Song 'Mariposa De Barro'

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Conceits are extended metaphors that use the similarities of two wildly unlike ideas. For example, Jenni Rivera, an American singer and songwriter, state's in her song, “Mariposa De Barro”, “I've crawled. I lived all, The changes, and even though I came crying. My wings I lifted! The one who lives singing. Her pain in color, neighborhood butterfly.” Rivera references a caterpillar’s transformation to her transformation, both mentally and physically. A = Rivera’s everyday struggles and B = the caterpillar. Just as a butterfly starts off as a caterpillar, Rivera started off as a weak minded struggled person. The caterpillar begins by crawling it’s way through the world, rock bottom, going through it’s obstacles. Until finally it transforms into

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