Rhetorical question
"Why have I always to be strong and self-controlled?"
"If one wants to appraise it, it is at once heroic and banal — but who wants to do that?"
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Aphorism
"No soldier outlives a thousand chances."
". . . terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks — but it kills, if a man thinks about it."
Symbolism
"The national feeling of the tommy resolves itself into this — here he is."
"I pass over the bridge, I look right and left; the water is as full of weeds as ever."
Foreshadowing
"'I can sleep enough later,' she says. . . . Her face is a white gleam in the darkness."
"On the landing I stumble over my pack, which lies there already made up because I have to leave early in the morning."
Doggerel
"Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay."
"And the war would be over and done in a day."
