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Noah's Elements
"Its smooth creamy paper" - descriptive

"Moreover it was filled with a sort of exaltation, a lunatic intensity."- hyperbole

"because of it's thinness the mouth and eyes looked disproportionally large, and the eyes seemed filled with a murderous, unappeasable, hatred for somebody or something"-imagery

"We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness"- foreshadowing

"seemed to flow through the group of people like an electric current"- simile

Paul's Elements
The paperweight and St. Clement’s Church have SYMBOL written all over them. These items are remnants of the past that, because of the Party’s control, no longer have any basis in "reality." Winston sees this woman as a symbol of freedom. Party members never sing, but hearing her song through the window of his rented room fills Winston – and soon, Julia – with hope for the future. Irony- "Big Brother" should be a nice guy that, even if he gives you a hard time every once in a while, still has your back on the playground. But since war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength, Big Brother is also a controlling and not really a brotherly guy.
 * The paperweight and St. Clement’s Church**
 * The Red-Armed Prole Woman**
 * Big Brother**

**Memory Holes**
These weren't talked about to much in the book, but that doesn’t mean they aren't important. Memory holes are those things in the ground that the Party insists any scraps of paper get tossed into. They lead to a furnace. Let’s think about this for a second. Memory…furnaces…memory…are memories being burned here? Why yes, they are. By destroying paper, the Party destroys documents and therefore //evidence// of the past. Which, given all the thought control going on, would seem to be the only real link left to history. Well, it //was//, anyway, until it got sent to the furnace.

Anne Marie's Elements
"The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs." This quote contains strong **Ironic qualities.** The use of the words truth peace love and plenty in this sentence are a style of writing used by the author to point of the dissimilarities between the names of these ministries and the actual jobs of these ministries.

"By 2050, earlier, probably – all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron – they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be." This quote contains **foreshadowing.**

"She was a bold-looking girl, of about twenty-seven, with thick hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements. A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips. Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her." This quote contains descriptive elements eg. adjectives and adverbs.

This quote uses **analogy** profusely.
 * "He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? And what way of knowing that the dominion of the Party would not endure forever?" **

"Uncalled, a memory floated into his mind. He saw a candle-lit room with a vast white counterpaned bed, and himself, a boy of nine or ten, sitting on the floor, shaking a dice-box, and laughing excitedly. His mother was sitting opposite him and also laughing." This quote is a **flashback.**

**Katy's Elements**

 * Setting**

A literary element that is widely used in this book is the setting. I think that the setting is very important to this book, it explains a lot of the story line. 1984 is set in Post World War II Europe, in a city called Oceania. I think that a main part of the setting is the scenes that the author describes in the book. An example would be the main character's (Winston) apartment. There are telescreens everywhere, he is watched constantly. This fact tells you about the authority of the government and how the citizens have no privacy. Also the author describes a little nook where Winston is not seen by the screens. I think that this helps with his rebellious thoughts and what propels him and his way of thinking throughout the book. This is the place where he can think without being afraid of the thought police.

Flashbacks are very important in the beginning of the book. Winston has many moments when he thinks back on the day. He also has some flashback moments when thinking and dreaming about when his mother left him. He also thins back to try and remember when he first heard of Big Brother, and what it was like before that, but he doesn't remember much.
 * Flashbacks**

This sentence from the book is using imagery to let the reader imagine what the character's surroundings are.
 * "Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere."**

Big Brother is alliteration.
 * Big Brother is watching you!**

This sentence uses personification, it gives the noise a source of personality.
 * "The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room."**