What literary element is this: "......... ;drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like
a horse. The small man stepped nervously beside him. " pg 2

What literary element is this: "Well, God knows he don’t need any brains to buck barley bags. ...................?” pg 11

What literary element is this: " Already the sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes....." pg 50

"Don't let him pull you in- but- if the son-of-a-(female dog) socks you let
'im have it." pg 15

Lennie's dead mouse

"Well, you keep away from her, cause she's a rattrap if I ever
seen one." Pg 16

"His name's Lennie Small." Pg 11

" I could stay in a cat house all night". Pg 6

"No," he said softly. "No, I couldn't do that. I had 'im too long." Pg 22
"He led the dog out into the darkness. George followed to the door and shut the door and set the latch gently in its place" Pg 23

" Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys." Pg 13
"He glanced coldly at George and then at Lennie. His arms gradually bent at the elbows and his hands closed into fists." Pg 12

" its head held up like a little periscope" Pg 4

"The sycamore leaves whispered in a little night breeze". Pg 8

"At about ten o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars." Pg 9

"He was a jerkline skinner, prince of the ranch." Pg 16

"Curley stepped over to Lennie like a terrier." Pg 30

" The first man stopped short in the clearing, and the follower nearly ran over him. He took off his hat and wiped the sweat-band with his forefinger and snapped the moisture off. His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse. The small man stepped nervously beside him. " Pg 2