Literary Devices in "The Stalin Epigram" Flashcards

1

"He forges decrees in a line like horsehoes"

2

"the ten thick worms his fingers"

3

"he rolls the executions on his tongue like berries"

4

"the glitter of his boot-rims"

5

"Our lives no longer feel ground under them"

6

"One whistles, another meows, a third snivels."

7

"his words like measures of weight"

8

"But whenever there is a snatch of talk"

9

"Ringed with the scum of chicken-necked bosses"

10

"He pokes out his finger and he alone goes boom"

Literary Devices in "The Stalin Epigram"