Literary Devices
- alliteration--(257) "'Sensation in Surry'"
repetition of the same consonant sound
- allusion--(226) "Because our world is not the same as Othello's."
Mustapha Mond alluding to Shakespeare's Othello.
- assonance--(242) "...Centrifugal Bumble-puppy."
repitition of the vowel "u".
- figurative language--"'I ate civilization.'"
John using using figurative language to describe his purification
- imagery--(262)"Like locusts they came, hung poised, descended all around him on the heather."
- irony--(233) "'All the people,who, for some reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to live in community-life.'"
Mond is describing to Helmholtz the types of people he will meet in exhile. What he says is a bit ironic because the word community denotes an environment of indivuduals who coexist together.
- onomatopoeia--(256-257) "quivering"
"buzzing"
"hiccoughs"
"squeaks"
- oxymoron--(230)"..unexhausting labour.."
two words expressing opposite meanings: tireless work
- simile--(256) "Startled as though bit by a snake."
(265)"...pushing and scrambling like swine baout the trough."
(267) "Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right.."
- symbol--(chp.18) The whip John uses to whip himself with symbolizes his only power. This object is the only means he has of purifying himself. The people later demean the significance of the whip by chanting, "'We--want--the whip..'"; transforming John's religious ritual into a cheap sideshow trick.