Hyperbole *I’ve told you to park in the back a million times. *Im going to die if this class isn’t over. *My bag weights a ton   Imagery *I remember the loud sound of the subway couldn’t let me hear the video on my phone. *The room smelled horrible and was dark,...

Hyperbole: I run so, so fast, that I can beat my dog in a race. I had to sleep for 100 hours to get my rest back. Not even a cow can satisfy my hunger. Imagery: She smells as a garden full of fresh watered roses. She is rough as piece...

Hyperbole     The winter winds are so strong, they could cut my face.   I love you bigger than the whole world.   Every time I think of you, my heart breaks into a million pieces.   Imagery   The sea calms me in such a way that it reminds me...

"Pink Bullets" I was just bony hands as cold as a winter pole You held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold Oh what a contrast you were To the brutes in the halls My timid young fingers held a decent animal.Over the ramparts you tossed The scent of...

won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clift won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand...

The promised land I have not seen any type of blue sky for the past 10 years, and I miss it. I miss the clouds and the scary summer storms and that thunder that broke the sky many times. I miss the rain and our warm...

“Now what goes after the circle?”   “A square”, Helen said. A square would go there since the pattern has been circle circle, square, circle circle, square.   “Are you sure?” asked Dr. Liechtenstein. “I think another circle goes there.”   “No, a square.”   “Very well.”  He wrote down her answers along...