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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

“The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smoldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.” – (The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman [1892])

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

“The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging. Hollow roar they made, as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like a gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green ;. . .” – (Moby Dick, Herman Mellville [1851])

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

“There were strange, rare odors abroad – a tangle of the sea smell and weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfume of a field of white blossoms somewhere near.” - (The Awakening, Kate Chopin [1899])

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

“The hour was approaching at the which the continental breakfast begins, or rather ceases, to tell, and the ladies bought some hot chestnut paste out of a little shop, because it looked so typical. It tasted partly the paper in which it is wrapped, partly of hair oil, partly of the great unknown.” – (A Room With a View, E.M. Forster [1908])

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

“I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.” – (Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte [1847])

Elizabeth wants to write a sensible essay about her experience in Senior High School as a student. She wants her readers to feel what she felt during the first day of school. Which of the following literary device is the best technique to use?

Philip would like to write a humorous commentary for his project in Creative Nonfiction about a certain social issue. Which of the following is the best technique to use?

What do you call the language used by poets, novelist, and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader?

What are the various techniques used in writing to help you express yourself and ideas in a slightly more colorful way?

What is a word or a phrase that possesses a separate meaning from it’s literal definition?