1984/ Harrison Bergron

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“hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in” - Paradox of hideous and ecstasy
Allusion to psychedelic drug

Question 2

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“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” Alliteration

Question 3

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“WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” - Paradox

Question 4

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“abolished, annihilated, vaporised” Tricolon

Question 5

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“if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever” Violent Imagery

Question 6

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“who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past” Epizeuxis - control

Question 7

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“tear her face off, strip her to her bones. Not me! Julia!”

Violent Imagery

Question 8

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“voluptuously and smooth…large neat capitals…DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” Declarative tone

Question 9

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“until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious” Palindrome

Question 10

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“no emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred…it was a political act” Metaphor

Question 11

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“Crippled, hollowed, sickened - I am greater than any man who ever lived” - Negative lexical chains

Question 12

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“His thoughts fled into a panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm” Simile

Question 13

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“tearing off his handicap harness like wet tissue paper” Imagery Metaphor Simile

Question 14

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“April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime.” Fabrication

Question 15

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“Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else”. Anaphora