- Simile: "He was like a man pursued..."
- Aphorism: "Those who meant well behaved the same way as those who meant badly."
- Direct Characterization: "He stood eight centimeters short of the standard Alpha height."
- Foil: Hemholtz Watson to Bernard (in a way, although they are also very similar)
- Foreshadowing: "I feel I could do something much more important. Yes, and more intense, more violent."
- Indirect Characterization: "But at the same time he felt rather ashamed for his friend. He wished Bernard would show a little more pride."
Chapter 5
- Repetition: "...and then, under the influence of those endless repetitions, the gradual soothing of her mind, the soothing, the smoothing, the stealthy creeping of sleep."
- Juxtaposition: "'Do you know what that switchback was? It was some human being finally and definitely disappearing. Going up in a squirt of hot gas...Everybody's happy now."
- Refrain: the song by "Calvin Stopes and his Sixteen Sexophonists"
- Mood: "Eyes shone, cheeks were flushed, the inner light of the universal benevolence broke out on every face in happy, friendly smiles."
- Note the slightly truncated phrases and emphasis on sensation rather than thought
- Irony: "She looked at Bernard with an expression of rapture, but of apture in which there was no trace of agitation or excitement-for to be excited is still to be unsatisfied."
- Motif: the number 12
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