Top 31

• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.: 'Paradox, Juxtaposition'
• "Big Brother is watching you.": 'Personification, Symbolism'
• "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs... and accepting both.": 'Oxymoron, Irony'
• "The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.": 'Paradox, Irony'
• "In the face of pain there are no heroes.": 'Imagery'
• "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again...": 'Metaphor, Imagery'
• "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.": 'Imagery, Hyperbole'
• "The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness... happiness is better.": 'Irony'
• "Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.": 'Metaphor, Hyperbole'
• "To die hating them, that was freedom.": 'Irony, Antithesis'
• "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.": 'Foreshadowing, Symbolism'
• Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.: 'Paradox, Irony'
• "Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.": 'Repetition, Irony'
• "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.": 'Irony, Paradox'
• "Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.": 'Irony'
• "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.": 'Synecdoche, Irony'
• "Who controls the past controls the future...": 'Irony, Repetition'
• If there is hope, it lies in the proles.: 'Irony, Metaphor'
• "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.": 'Irony, Paradox'
• "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.": 'Hyperbole'
• "We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.": 'Metaphor'
• "We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.": 'Paradox, 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.": 'Imagery, Symbolism'
• "If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.": 'Irony'
• "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.": 'Juxtaposition, Antithesis'
• "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.": 'Aphorism'
• "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.": 'Aphorism, Irony'
• "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.": 'Paradox, Irony'
• "He loved Big Brother.": 'Irony, Symbolism'
• You had to live… in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard… every movement scrutinized.: 'Anaphora, Hyberbole'