Parallel construction
"My feet begin to move forward in my boots, I go quicker, I run."
"The wood vanishes, it is pounded, crushed, torn to pieces."
"No longer do we lie helpless, waiting on the scaffold, we can destroy and kill, to save ourselves, to save ourselves and to be revenged."
Simile
"Like a big, soft jelly-fish, [gas] floats into our shell-hole and lolls there obscenely."
"He had collapsed like a rotten tree."
Metaphor
"When Kat stands in front of the hut and says: 'There'll be a bombardment,' that is merely his own opinion; but if he says it here, then the sentence has the sharpness of a bayonet in the moonlight, it cuts clean through the thought, it thrusts nearer and speaks to this unknown thing that is awakened in us, a dark meaning — 'There'll be a bombardment.'"
"Immediately a second [searchlight] is beside him, a black insect is caught between them and tries to escape — the airman."
"I don't know whether it is morning or evening, I lie in the pale cradle of the twilight, and listen for soft words which will come, soft and near — am I crying?"
