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Read each passage from the novel. Decide what literary device from the following list is best exemplified by each passage
1. "The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal." (Metaphor)
2. "Even while he was speaking to O'Brien, when the meaning of the words had sunk in , a chilly shuddering feeling had taken possession of his body. He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave..." (Allusion)
3. "....Mr. Charrington had made no difficulty about letting the room....Everyone wanted a place where thy could be alone occasionally. And when they had such place, it was only common courtesy in anyone else who knew of it to keep his knowledge to himself." (Paradox)
4. "The solid, contourless body, like a block of granite, and rasping red, skin, bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose-hip to the rose. " (simile)
5. "They emptied their (wine) glasses....O'Brien...handed her a flat white tablet which he told her to place on her tongue." (Foreshawdow)
6. "It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous was had ceased to exist." (Irony)
7. "When the last of the chocolate was gone, his mother had clasped the child in her arms.... it seemed natural to her to do it." (Flashback)
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