1) Repetition
"Help him, help him" (p.50)
2)Allusion
"John Milton is a sadist" (p.97)
3) Paradox
"If he flew [planes] he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. " (p.46)
4) Situational Irony
" Clevinger was a genius... a Harvard undergraduate... [going] far in the academic world... In short, he was a dope" (p. 68)
5) Dramatic Irony
"Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice. The doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn't quite jaundice" (p. 7)
6) Symbolism
"He never sends anyone home, anyway. He just keeps them waiting around waiting for rotation orders until he doesn't haven enough men left for the crews, and then raises the number of missions and throws them all back on combat status. He's been doing that ever since he got here" (p.102)
7) Verbal Irony
"I don't have nightmares" (p. 54)
8) Alliteration
"If the colonel says we have to fly fifty-five missions, we have to fly them" (p. 65)
9)Motif
"I don't want to fly milk runs" (p.103)
10) Foreshadowing
"Do you remember... that time in Rome when that girl who can't stand you kept hitting me over and over the head with the heel of her shoe? Do you want to know why she was hitting me?" (p. 25)
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