So let the class invent its own assignments. Elbow, from an article in College English, November 1968. As long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard.
Standard performance is sub-standard.
Climax , arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance. But alas . . . Simile an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common. Most often marked by the use of like or as. Synecdoche a part stands for the whole.