Literary Devices in Anthem

1. “The trees parted before us, calling us forward. The forest seemed to welcome us.”​ (a)  

2. “Women work in the fields, and their white tunics in the wind are like the wings of sea-gulls beating over the black soil"​ ​ ​ (a)  

3. “ There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and in the air of our streets. Fear walks through the city, Fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and dare not speak it.”​ (a)  

4. “It is dark here. The flame of the candle stands still in the air. Nothing moves in this tunnel save our hand on the paper. We are alone here under the earth.”​ (a)   ​

5. “We shall be sentenced to ten years in the Palace of Corrective Detention.”​ (a)  

6. “And it seemed as if these eyes were begging us to gather that word and not to let it go from us and from the earth. But the flames rose and we could not guess the word… What is the Unspeakable Word?”​ ​ (a)  

7. “And I have read of a goddess…who was the mother of the earth and of all the gods. Her name was Gaea.”​ (a)  

8. “The leaves rustle over our head, black against the last gold of the sky.”​ (a)  

9. “We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven.”

“We know these things, but we do not care. We care for nothing on earth. We are tired. 

“I am done with the monster of “We.” the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.”

10. “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE…”