Literary Devices in The Chrysalids

"People in our district had a very sharp eye for the odd, or the unusual"

"occasionally it was by night when the lights lay like strings of glow-worms along the shore"

"There was no telling how many generations of people had passed their lives like savages."(39)

"She had lost her serious look, and her eyes were dancing with excitement." (7)

"But this city, clustered on the curve of a big blue bay, would come into my mind." (Wyndham 5)

"There were certain persons with elastic principles."(19)