| Imagery | “Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hill to the top” (Steinbeck 2). |
| Foreshadowing | “Well, look-Lennie, if you just happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush” (Steinbeck 15). |
| Suspense | ” The silence fell on the room again. A minute passed, and another minute” (Steinbeck 49) |
| Figurative Language – Simile | “…slowly, like a terrier who doesn’t want to bring a ball to its master, Lennie approached, drew back, approached again”(Steinbeck 9). |
| Figurative Language -Metaphor | “He was a jerkline skinner, prince of the ranch.” (Steinbeck 33) |
| Characterization – Direct | “Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys” (Steinbeck 26). |
| Characterization – Indirect | “Crooks had his apple box over his bunk, and in it a range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the horses. There were cans of saddle soap and a drippy can of tar with its paint brush sticking over the edge. And scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions; for, being alone, Crooks could leave his things about, and being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men, and he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back” (Steinbeck 66-67). |
| Personification | “The sycamore leaves whispered in a little night breeze.” (Steinbeck 16) |
| Symbolism | “George carefully built his line of solitaire cards” (Steinbeck 42). |
| Flashback | George tells Slim about what happened in Weed -“Well he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is, he wants to touch ever’thing he likes…” (Steinbeck 41). |
Literary Elements – Of Mice and Men
April 25, 2020