Lupercalia Love

Yesterday was  Valentine’s Day, and I decided to embark on an epic quest to find the most quintessential love song (it’s Eep Opp Ork Ah Ah by Jet Screamer from the Jetsons), and much to my surprise and joy I found a use of metonymy in a song. Alanis Morissette’s “Head Over Feet” shows exactly what metonymy is. Metonymy is calling something not by the actual word, but something related to or associated with it The idiom as we all know is head over heels in love, but instead she substitutes feet for heels.