Having read elie wiesel, "hope, despair, and memory" in at least 150 words, discuss the author's use of figurative language, also known as figures of speech, literary devices, and rhetorical devices. identify and discuss the explicit and implicit meaning of at least three kinds of figures of speech.

Of the three selections you read in this lesson, discuss the one story or poem that you think most closely represents the transcendentalist way of thinking. include textual evidence from both short story or poem and emerson or thoreau's essay that you use as an example. you should have no less than eight to ten sentences.