1984 - George Orwell

"'You are a slow learner, Winston,' said O'Brien gently. 'How can I help it?' he blubbered. 'How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.'

Sarcasm

"His whole appearance was that of a little boy grown large, so much so that although he was wearing the regulation overalls, it was almost impossible not to think of him as being dressed in the blue shorts, grey shirt, and red neckerchief of the Spies. In visualizing him one saw always a picture of dimpled knees and sleeves rolled back from pudgy forearms. Parsons did, indeed, invariably revert to shorts when a community hike or any other physical activity gave him an excuse for doing so."

Humor

"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength"

Irony

"The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face."

Hyperbole

"WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

Reversal

"Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?' Winston did know that, of course. He smiled, sympathetically he hoped, not trusting himself to speak." (News Speak is a parody of English language)

Parody

"His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER over and over again, filling half a page.He could not help feeling a twinge of panic. It was absurd, since the writingof those particular words was not more dangerous than the initial act of openingthe diary, but for a moment he was tempted to tear out the spoiled pages andabandon the enterprise altogether."

Incongruity

"For an instant he was insane, a screaming animal. Yet he came out of the blackness clutching an idea. There was one and only one way to save himself. He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, between himself and the rats.... 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones."

Incongruity

"He hardly thought of Julia. He could not fix his mind on her. He loved her and would not betray her; but that was only a fact, known as he knew the rules of arithmetic. He felt no love for her, and he hardly even wondered what was happening to her."

Anecdote

"It was always the women... who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swalloers of slogans, the amateur spies and the nosers out of unorthodoxy"

Stereotype

"You're only a rebel from the waist downwards"

Stereotype

The Junior spies

Allusion (Real life Nazi Youth Group)

Victory coffee, Victory cigarettes, Victory gin, and the Victory Mansions

Irony

Minilove, Minitrue, Minipax

Irony

“The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one”

Irony

Page 11 Diary Entry - Flicks incident

Anecdote

“Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it…he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia.”

Reversal

“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in”

Hyperbole

"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

Irony