Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, the winter of despair." - (A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens)

• Anaphora

• Litotes

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

“Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the

fish moved south, and even the snow turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard. People had to wait until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before.” – (Babe, the Blue Ox, retold by S.E. Schlosser)

• Synecdoche

• Paradox

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” – (The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

. "Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear,

Thou lily-livered boy. What soldiers, patch?

Death of thy soul! Those linen cheeks of thine

Are counselors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?

The English force, so please you.

Take thy face hence."

- (Macbeth, William Shakespeare)

• Synecdoche

• Irony

• Assonance

• Chiasmus

Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” – (JFK’s Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961)

• Euphemism

• Metonymy

• Chiasmus

• Pun

Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

“Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad. I’m just … well, differently moraled that’s it.” – (The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde)

• Assonance

• Antithesis

• Anaphora

• Euphemism

Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

“I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too – for being married so many times” – (Elizabeth Taylor)

• Pun

• Apostrophe

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

“The road to success is always under construction.” – (Lily Tomlin)

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

“He sat as still as a mouse, in the futile hope that whoever it was might go away after a single attempt. But no, the knocking was repeated. The worst thing of all would be to delay. His heart is thumping like a drum, but his face, from long habit, was probably expressionless.” – (George Orwell’s novel 1984)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Apostrophe

• Irony

Analyze and identify the figure of speech or imagery used in each of the following literary texts.

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents'

Strife.”

– (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Irony

• Understatement