Imagery
"To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often forever."
"The front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen."
"I recognize the characteristic outline of the Dolbenberg, a jagged comb, springing up precipitously from the limits of the forests."
Repetition
"Earth! — Earth! — Earth!"
"Dawn approaches without anything happening — only the everlasting, nerve-wracking roll behind the enemy lines, trains, trains, lorries, lorries; but what are they concentrating?"
Antithesis
"A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread."
"It is as though formerly we were coins of different provinces; and now we are melted down, and all bear the same stamp."
