Alliteration
* “The satisfaction of months shines in his dull pig’s eyes as he spits out: ‘Dirty hound!’”
* “What would become of us if everything that happens out there were quite clear to us?”
Euphony
* “Now red points glow in every face. They comfort me: it looks as though there were little windows in dark village cottages saying that behind them are rooms full of peace.”
* “Outside the window the wind blows and the chestnut trees rustle.”
Cacophony
* “But first you have to give the Froggies a good hiding.”
* “The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the child-like cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence.”
Slang
* “And now get on with it, you old blubber-sticker, and don’t you miscount either.”
* “You get off scot free, of course.”
* “That cooked his goose.”
* “Kat has lost all his fun since we have been here, which is bad, for Kat is an old front-hog, and can smell what is coming.”
Note: Because this version is the work of translator A. W. Wheen, the creation of images based on English sound—that is, onomatopoeia, alliteration, euphony, cacophony, and slang—cannot be credited to Remarque.
