An Inspector Calls

• “Lower Costs, Higher Prices”- Mr Birling, Act 1
• “Burnt her inside out, of course”- Inspector Goole, Act 1


  This vivid imagery is used to invoke sympathy in the audience.
• “He’s giving us the rope so that we’ll hang ourselves”- Sheila Birling


  This figure of speech shows that Sheila's attitude is beginning to change, and that she is no longer naïve like she was at the beginning of the play.
• “We will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”- Inspector Goole


  Triple, effective on the audience of 1945 as they have just experienced a second world war.
• “You killed her. She came to you to protect me”- Eric Birling


  He is accusing his mother f being the main reason Eva Smith is dead.