All Quiet on the Western Front Literary Devices

Front

"The canteens hum like beehives full of rumors."

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simile

Front

"...the stems gleam purest white and pastel-green leaves hang airily,"

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imagery

Front

"We are little flames poorly sheltered by walls,"

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metaphor

Front

"Our hands are earth, our bodies are clay, and our eyes are pools of rain,"

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metaphor

Front

"Death is hunting us down. We can see his face,"

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personification

Front

"two men are smashed so you could scrape them off the wall with a spoon and bury them in a mess-tin."

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hyberbole

Front

"...attack follows attack along the weakening, retreating, crumbling lines,"

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parallelism

Front

"The world invented weapons and words,"

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alliteration

Front

"the train stamps onward,"

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onomatopoeia

Front

"Every day and every hour, every shell and every death..."

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parallelism