PARENTHETICAL: MANIACALLY, THE MOTHER BROODED OVER HER CHILDREN (HER CHILDREN) BROODED OVER THEM LIKE A CAT OVER ITS KITTENS; BNW, PG 43 (ZOE)
PERSONIFICATION: THE PARTY COULD THRUST ITS HAND INTO THE PAST AND SAY OF THIS OR THAT EVENT, IT NEVER HAPPENED. 1984,PG. 34 (COLTON B)
PARALLELISM OCEANIA WAS AT WAR WITH EURASIA. THEREFORE OCEANA WAS ALWAYS AT WAR WITH EURASIA. 1984, PG. 34 (COLTON B)
HYPERBOLE HE WOULD EXIST JUST AS AUTHENTICALLY AND UPON THE SAME EVIDENCE AS CHARLEMAGNE OR JULIUS CAESAR. 1984, PG 48 (COLTON B)
VISUAL IMAGERY: SHE WAS A TALL, STATUESQUE, RATHER SILENT WOMAN WITH SLOW MOVEMENTS AND MAGNIFICENT FAIR HAIR. 1984,PG. 29 (JACOB M)
AUDITORY IMAGERY A HIDEOUS SCREECH, AS OF SOME MONSTROUS MACHINE RUNNING WITHOUT OIL, BURST FROM THE BIG TELE-SCREEN AT THE END OF THE ROOM. 1984, 69-70 (COLTON B)
OLFACTORY IMAGERY: AND I THOUGHT I COULD SMELL, FAINTLY, LIKE AN AFTER IMAGE, THE PUNGENT SCENT OF SWEAT. THMT (ERIKA)
ANAPHORA: PERHAPS HE WAS MERELY BEING FRIENDLY, PERHAPS IT WAS A TEST, PERHAPS HE IS AN EYE. THMT (ERIKA)
AUXESIS THE STUDENTS NODDED, EMPATHETICALLY AGREEING WITH A STATEMENT WHICH UP WARDS OF 62 THOUSAND REPETITIONS HAD MADE THEM ACCEPT, NOT MERELY AS TRUE, BUT AS AXIOMATIC, SELF-EVIDENT, UTTERLY INDISPUTABLE. BNW, PG. 46 (TILLENA)
EPIZEUXIS THE CORPSES OF A THOUSAND AND THOUSAND THOUSAND MEN AND WOMEN WOULD BE HARD TO BURY OR BURN. BNW, PG 48 (TILLENA)
ADAGE STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE S MOUTH INTO THEIR NOTEBOOK. BNW, 16 (ZOE)
PARADOX: MY BABY, AND OH, OH AT MY BREAST THE LITTLE HANDS, THE HUNGER, AND THE UNSPEAKABLE AGONIZING PLEASURE. BNW, PG. 43 (MARISSA)
SYMBOL: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU EVEN FROM THE COIN THE EYES FOLLOW YOU. 1984, PG 27 (COLTON B)
DIALECT HULLO FANNY BNW, PG 43 (HALLIE)
KINESTHETIC IMAGERY BUT HE HAD NOT GONE SIX STEPS DOWN THE PASSAGE WHEN SOMETHING HIT THE BACK OF HIS NECK, AN AGONIZING PAINFUL BLOW. 1984, 24 (JACOB M.)
METAPHOR THE HUMMING OF THE SCREWS OVERHEAD DROPPED AN OCTAVE AND A HALF, BACK THROUGH WASP AND HORNET TO BUMBLE BEE, TO STAGBEETLE. BNW, PG66 (COLTON B)
GUSTATORY IMAGERY THE STUFF WAS LIKE NITRIC ACID, AND MOREOVER, IN SWALLOWING IT ONE HAD THE SENSATION OF BEING HIT ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH A RUBBER CLUB. 1984, 121 (JACOB M.)
SITUATIONAL IRONY THE MINISTRY OF PEACE, WHICH CONCERNED ITSELF WITH WAR. 1984, 4 (COLTON H)
ZOOMORPHISM THE SAXOPHONES WAILED LIKE MELODIOUS CATS UNDER THE MOON BNW, PG.78 (TILLENA)
LOGOS RETURNS NOW COMPLETED OF ALL CLASSES OF CONSUMPTION GOODS SHOW THAT THE STANDARD OF LIVING HAVE RISEN BY NO LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT. 1984, PG. 58 (COLTON B)
ETHOS: ANYONE UNDER FORTYFIVE IS PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF TOUCHING HIS TOES. WE DON T ALL HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF FIGHTING ON THE FRONT LINE. 1984, PG. 37 (COLTON B)
ASSONANCE THERE WAS AN ABSOLUTE SILENCE - SILENCE OF STRETCHED EXPECTANCY, QUIVERING AND CREEPING WITH A GALVANIC LIFE. BNW, PG 83 (TILLIE)
DRAMATIC IRONY IN THE OLD DAYS, BEFORE THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION, LONDON WAS NOT THE BEAUTIFUL CITY THAT WE KNOW TODAY. 1984, PG 83 (COLTON B.)
ALLEGORY THE MESA WAS LIKE A SHIP BECALMED IN A STRAIT OF LION-COLOURED DUST. THE CHANNEL WOUND BETWEEN PRECIPITOUS BANKS, AND SLANTING FROM ONE WALL TO THE OTHER ACROSS THE VALLEY RAN A STREAK OF GREEN-THE RIVER AND ITS FIELDS. ON THE PROW OF THAT STONE SHIP IN THE CENTRE OF THE STRAIT, AND SEEMINGLY A PART OF IT, A SHAPED AND GEOMETRICAL OUTCROP OF THE NAKED ROCK, STOOD THE PUEBLO OF MALPAIS. BNW, 103
VERBAL IRONY BUT CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO FORDLINESS. SHE INSISTED YES, AND CIVILIZATION IS STERILIZATION BERNARD CONCLUDED ON A TONE OF IRONY THE SECOND HYPNOPAEDIC LESSON. BNW, 103
MERISMUS AS THOUGH WE WERE LIVING ON A DIFFERENT PLANETS, IN DIFFERENT CENTURIES. A MOTHER, AND ALL THIS DIRT, AND GODS, AND OLD AGE, AND DISEASE BNW, 116 (MARISSA)
METONYMY THE SAVAGE FREQUENTLY GOES TO SEE HER AND APPEARS TO BE ATTACHED TO HER BNW, 160 (ABI)
POLYSYNDETON CHRISTIANITY AND TOTEMISM AND ANCESTRAL WORSHIP EXTINCT LANGUAGES, SUCH AS ZUNI AND SPANISH AND ATHABASCAN BNW, 180
ANTIPHRASIS BNW, 161
PATHOS BNW, 161