"She sells seashells by the seashore" is an example of what?

"Work, work and work are the keys to success" is an example of what?

"Life is like a box of chocolates" is an example of what?

The American Eagle is used to represent America. What is this an example of?

"You are an angel" is an example of what?

Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax that is a story about the actual characters but also a moral tale about our own care of the environment. What is this an example of?

The strawberry ice cream was sweet and creamy, bursting with the flavors of fresh strawberries and delicious cream. What is this an example of?

The following poem, by Emily Dickinson, is entitled “Fame is a Fickle Food.” Emily Dickinson was an American poet who lived from 1830-1886.

1 Fame is a fickle food

2 Upon a shifting plate

3 Whose table once a

4 Guest but not

5 The second time is set.

6 Whose crumbs the crows inspect

7 And with ironic caw

8 Flap past it to the Farmer’s Corn –

9 Men eat of it and die.

Line 1, “Fame is a fickle food” is an example of which two literary devices?

The following excerpt is taken from the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by American author Zora Neale Hurston in 1937.

Through the screaming wind they heard things crashing and things hurtling and dashing with unbelievable velocity. A baby rabbit, terror ridden, squirmed through a hole in the floor and squatted off there in the shadows against the wall, seeming to know that nobody wanted its flesh at such a time. And the lake got madder and madder with only its dikes between them and him…

…The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God…’

Describe the mood of the passage above: