"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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"No hopeless lover of a living maiden was ever so desperately unhappy as Pygmalion."

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Quote: "... was very wise, wiser even than the gods..."

• Polyptoton

• wise/wiser

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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 embroidered veil, a wonder to behold, and bright garlands of blooming flowers, and crown of gold - great beauty shone our from it."

• Paradox: Great evil is a sweet and lovely thing to look upon
• Dashes: there are lots of dashes

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• Consonance- "strength and swiftness ...shrewd cunning, " There is the repetition of "S".
• Polysyndeton- repetition of the conjuntion "and" 
• Periodic Sentence- could have ended at "Before making men he gave all the best gifts to the animals" etc.
• Dashes- "like—until"gives the reading a deep pause where the reader can think and analyze what had just been said.
• Juxtaposition- "best gifts" and "no quality"  contrast with each other. 

• "Before making men" implies that the person who makes the men doesn't see the men as worthy they see the animal as more worthy.
• "gave all the best gifts to the animals" this portrays that the person who is giving the gifts to the animals doesn't see  men as a fit for the skills that are being gifted that the men are supposed to be worthy of.

Quote- "Before making men he gave all the best gifts to the animals, strength and swiftness and courage and shrewd cunning, fur and feathers and wings and shells and the like—until no good was left for men, no protective covering and no quality to make them a match for the beasts."

• Consonance ("fur and feathers", "strength and swiftness", "courage and shrewd cunning")
• Polysyndeton ("...strength and swiftness and courage and shrewd cunning, fur and feathers and wings and shells and the like"
• Dashes ("... wings and shells and the like—until no good was left for men")
• Juxtaposition ("no good", "no quality")

• Using polysyndeton, (having more conjunctions than normal, in this case, "and"), added emphasis to how many good qualities he gave to the animals, and how little he left for men. The repetition on "no" also stresses that there really was nothing good for men. 
• Adding all the adjectives to describe the animals also emphasized how much they were given

Quote- " Prometheus, whose name means forethought, was very wise, wiser even than the gods, but Epimetheus, which means afterthought, was a scatterbrained person who invariably followed his first impulse and then changed his mind."

• It sort of just states what the characters are like in an un-creative way;  word choice could be stronger. If this was a simple sentence then it would be fine. 

• Impulsive, scatter-brained; all these words described Epimetheus, whose name literally means afterthought. Prometheus, on the other hand, (forethought), could only be called wise.