Literary Devices (200-202)

Tone

Arthur: confused, uncomfortable, frustrated
Ex:

- "Oh come on…"

-"Then why did you bring it up in the first place?""All right, what was upon you?"


Birds: very loud, very talkative, chatty, comunicative,
Ex:
-"(General squawks and caws)"

-"(Hiss hiss hiss)"

-"Imagine how our ancestors felt! To walk through our great cities, stride across pedestrian precincts, stroll along walkways, maybe wander into a small wine bar to have lunch with a girlfriend…"

Narrator: unconcerned, detailed, talkative, humorous
Ex:

-"…and in extreme cases shot through their lungs, are now thought to be very healthy proper and their use in everyday speech is seen as evidence of well adjusted relaxed and totally un(BEEP)ed up personality"

Opposition

-"unspeakable nightmare"
-"more unspeakable than this lot"
-"very little still held to be unspeakable"


Imaginary
-"and then they would saunter off into the sunset"

Humor:
-understatement :"Can't be more unspeakable than this lot"

-pun"Well anything to get out of my ear"



Allusion:

-Allusion to very strict employers giving their workers no rights.
"We set them to work to build up the stature as an eternal reminder. After which we set them to a slave planet where they are doing a very useful job making toupes."

-The law of Gravity
"The law of Gravity isn't as indiscriminate as people often think"

-Belgium
"That word is 'Belgium and it is only ever used by loose tongued people like Zaphod in situation of dire provocation""Belgium, man Belgium"

-The blight
"We were forced to re-evolve by the second more deadly blight"

Repetition:

-"We walked, we walked"

-"Unspeakable! Unspeakable"

-"Belgium, man, Belgium!"

-"Ah what woe was upon us!"All right, what woe was upon you?"

Reversal:

-"Well anything to get out of my ear"


Understatement:

-"Can't be more unspeakable than this lot"

Hyperbole:

-"Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that were they merely to be breathed in public…"