George Orwell 1984 Figurative Language

Language:
“The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall.” (2)

“Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations...Not a word of it could be proved or disproved...It was like a single equation with two unknowns” (74)

L(1) George Orwell, the author of 1984, uses figurative language within this quote with a perfectly crafted simile. This type of language was used to act as a comparison between the television to a flat mirror mounted on the wall.

L(2) This quote contains a simile which Orwell uses to compare a math equation with 2 unknown answers to what life is like in Oceania, where citizens never knew if what the party was telling them was true or not, and they could do nothing to figure it out.
Imagery:
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” (1)

“He looked around the canteen. A low ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of innumerable bodies; battered metal tables and chairs, placed so close together that you sat with elbows touching; bent spoons, dented trays, coarse white mugs; all surfaces greasy, grime in every crack; and a sourish, composite smell of bad gin and bad coffee and

Both bright and cold, and clocks striking 13 can also be seen as paradoxical concepts. As more often than not cold days are often cloudy, and as we also all know, clocks certainly do not have 13 hours. The image he portrays, of a bright cold day and a clock striking 13 can be considered paradoxical because the images are to a certain extent absurd. As well I think this paradox helps to draw out the theme concerning the paradox of totalitarian governments, expeditiously with the clock hitting 13 as it represents how Oceania is under such strict control by