"He kissed those enticing lips—they could not kiss him back; he caressed her hands, her face—they were unresponsive; he took her in his arms—she remained a cold and passive form."

• Asyndeton (the dashes, commas, and semicolons are used in place of connecting words and help create a tone of desperation by placing everything desperate Pygmalion tries to do to the statue in one sentence without transitions or connections between each phrase/clause)
• Anaphora (the repetition of "he" at the start of each clause help convey the meaning that Pygmalion is the active player in this myth)
• Juxtaposition (the contrast between Pygmalion's desperate actions and the statue's passive lack of response is developed with contrasting words/phrases like "kissed" and "could not kiss")

• "enticing" implies Pygmalion sees the statue not as a real woman but as an object to be desired ("enticing" is usually used to describe objects, like food, i.e., "the enticingly purple grape")
• "cold" implies the statue is both physically and emotionally cold (like an ice queen) despite Pygmalion's desperate advances

"Either he could not dismiss what he so disapproved of from his mind as easily as from his life, or else he was bent on forming a perfect woman and showing men the deficiencies of the kind they had to put up with."

• The word choice isn't as strong as in the rest of the myth. It isn't super clear what Hamilton is trying to say. The ideas all flow together mushily, making it feel like a run-on sentence even though it is properly punctuated.

•  Questions about Pygmalion's motives for forming the quintessentially statuesque woman persist. Perhaps his hatred for women in his real life failed to dampen his predilection for idealizing the female form. Or perhaps he hoped to illustrate, for all mankind, the imperfections in women he felt all men were forced to endure.

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"Prometheus, then, took over the task of creation and thought out a way to make mankind superior. He fashioned them in a nobler shape than the animals, upright like the gods; and then he went to heaven, to the sun, where he lit a torch and brought down fire, a protection to men far better than anything else, whether fur or feathers or strength or swiftness."

• Parallel Structure, one part of the sentence sets up the other... "He fashioned them in a nobler shape than the animals, upright like the gods"
• Chiasmus, the sentence is written in reverse order... "he lit a torch and brought down fire"

• "superior", implies they are much stronger then the competitors.
• "nobler", implies that it is worth recognition.

"There is more than one account of how that came to pass."

• No good, or helpful word choice 
• It does not explain what is going on

•  When it was time for men to be created, the gods could argue on how that time for new life arose.

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Techniques:

• Dashes --
• Periodic Sentence  --

• She had to know -- it implies the need for her to open the box, not an option for her 
•  innumerable, sorrow -- shows how much evil was in the box
• man kind -- shows how many people the box being opened will affect 

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" He made a great evil for men, a sweet and lovely thing to look upon, in the likeness of a shy maiden, and all the gods gave her gifts, silvery raiment and a broidered veil, a wonder to behold, and bright garlands of blooming flowers and a crown of gold—great beauty shone out from it" (Hamilton 3)

• Asyndeton because she uses the conjunction "and" multiple times.

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"She had to know what was in the box" (Hamilton 3)

• It is weak because it doesn't use very sophisticated lingo.

•  By her impulsive nature, her first instinct was to find out what could possibly be contained in the box.

Quote: "He fashioned them in a nobler shape than the animals, upright like the gods; and then he went to heaven, to the sun, where he lit a torch and brought down fire..."

• Periodic Sentence: Hamilton does not display the actual thought (lighting a torch and bringing down fire) until the very end of the quote
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Quote- "Detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women, he resolved never to marry."

• Periodic Sentence:

• "Resolved" shows that he was promising that he would never marry a women. A resolution is stronger than saying you will.
• "Detesting" implies he doesn't just dislike women, he is so disgusted by them that he avoids them completely.
• "Beyond Measure/Nature" shows an over exaggeration of the flaws that Pygmalion believes women have.

Quote- "In the end he gave up."