Figurative Elements
"Look out for luck. You can't trust luck." (Grapes of Wrath)
Consonance
"... at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon." (The Great Gatsby)
Cacophony
"I didn't hear it." (The Great Gatsby)
General
"From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulreadys...who controlled Films Par Excellence. And the Catlips...who afterward strangled his wife...and Henry L. Palmetto, who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Square." (The Great Gatsby)
parallelism
"There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights..On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus...And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before" (The Great Gatsby pg. 39)
Archetype
"I'm the Sheik of Araby.
Your love belongs to me.
At night when you're asleep
Into your tent I'll creep-" (The Great Gatsby)
Ballad
"The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss." (The Great Gatsby)
Figurative
"What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?" (The Great Gatsby)
anaphora
"The supercilious assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do."(The Great Gatsby)
Aside
"Casey sat down on the running board and looked westward." (Grapes of Wrath)
Literal
"A lemonade? No, thanks. A little champagne? Nothing at all, thanks..." (The Great Gatsby)
epistrophe
"Rose of Sharon loosened one side of the blanket and bared her breast. 'You got to,' she said. She squirmed closer and pulled his head close. 'There!' she said. 'There.' Her hand moved behind his head and supported it. Her fingers moved gently in his hair. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously." (Grapes of Wrath)
Apotheosis
"Al drove the touring car, and his mother sat beside him, and Rose of Sharon beside her." (Grapes of Wrath)
Specific
"There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore." (The Great Gatsby)
chiasmus
"And with his doubt, his whole statement fell to pieces, and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him, after all." (The Great Gatsby)
Assonance
"She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand." (The Great Gatsby)
antithesis