Literary Devices

Assonance
" 'I ought to spit on all of them, and on my own behaviour!'"
(104)

Parallelism
"for what you underwent all those torments and consciously performed such base, vile and ignoble actions?"
(104)

Simile
"He thought that if anybody were to speak to him, he would spit and snarl at them like an animal..."
(105)

Polysyndenton
"In some gulf far below him, almost out of sight beneath his feet, lay all his past, all his old ideas, and problems, and thoughts, and sensations, and this great panorama, and his own self, and everything, everything..."
(109)

Asyndenton
"Fear crept like ice round his heart, tortured his nerves, numbed his spirit..."
(110)

Epithet
"The wretched Lizaveta"
(76)

Repetition
" so they pressed and pressed and squeezed and squeezed, until he confessed"
(132)

Metonymy
"the English Embassy sold them last week"
(124)

Synecdoche
"'He has an itching palm' "
(127)

Paradox
"untruth is valuable, because it leads to truth"
(129)

Alliteration
"a slight alteration in the atmosphere"
(137)

Litotes
"'you said she was monstrously ugly...but, you know, she's no monster"
(62)