Literary Techniques - Quotes

• "His tentacle, his delicate stalked slug's eye, which extrudes, expands, winces and shrivels back into himself."

• "Helped onto the high stool as if she's being helped up the steps of a bus... the noose adjusted delicately around the neck, like a vestment."

• "Unwomen"
• "Particicution"
• "Compucheck"

Atwood uses this technique when Offred thinks about the power of language and its many different meanings:

• "Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?"
• "I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech."

• "Buttered, I lie on my single bed, flat, like a piece of toast."