1. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.”
The Cask of Amontillado
By Edgar Allan Poe
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Symbolism
Theme

2. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.”
The Cask of Amontillado
By Edgar Allan Poe
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Symbolism
Theme

3. “…the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.”
Frankenstein
By Mary Shelley
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Allusion

4. “…the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.”
Frankenstein
By Mary Shelley
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Allusion

5. “The greater part of the untested men appeared quiet and absorbed
“The greater part of the untested men appeared quiet and absorbed. They were going to look at the war, the red animal—the blood-swollen god.”
The Red Badge of Courage
By Stephen Crane
Simile
Symbol
Metaphor
Understatement

6. “The greater part of the untested men appeared quiet and absorbed
“The greater part of the untested men appeared quiet and absorbed. They were going to look at the war, the red animal—the blood-swollen god.”
The Red Badge of Courage
By Stephen Crane
Simile
Symbol
Metaphor
Understatement

7. “One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.”
The Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll
Setting
Falling Action
Connotation
Onomatopoeia

8. “One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.”
The Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll
Setting
Falling Action
Connotation
Onomatopoeia

9. “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping…”
The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Exposition
Hyperbole

10. “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping…”
The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Exposition
Hyperbole

11. “Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky, Like a patient etherized upon a table.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T.S. Eliot
Imagery
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Simile

12. “Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky, Like a patient etherized upon a table.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T.S. Eliot
Imagery
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Simile

13. “Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
The Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hyperbole
Setting
Simile
Foreshadowing

14. “Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
The Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hyperbole
Setting
Simile
Foreshadowing

15. “I celebrate myself and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
Figurative Language
Free Verse
Imagery
Hyperbole

16. “I celebrate myself and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
Figurative Language
Free Verse
Imagery
Hyperbole

17. “Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity;
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!”
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Alliteration

18. “Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity;
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!”
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Alliteration

19. “I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious
“I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”
The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger
Figurative Language
Symbolism
Understatement
Connotation

20. “I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious
“I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”
The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger
Figurative Language
Symbolism
Understatement
Connotation