Short utterances
"It is not fear."
"Thirty-two men."
"Life is short."
Cause and effect
"Our faces are neither paler nor more flushed than usual; they are not more tense nor more flabby — and yet they are changed."
"They have taken us farther back than usual to a field depot so that we can be re-organized."
Irony
"The shells begin to hiss like safety-valves — heavy fire — . . . ."
". . . a high double wall of yellow, unpolished, brand-new coffins. They still smell of resin, and pine, and the forest."
Appositive
"Thus momentarily we have the two things a soldier needs for contentment: good food and rest.'
"I have killed the printer, Gérard Duval."
