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Remarque recreates vivid scenes of war through long, list like sentences. He dramatically describes the horrors of war:

We see men living with their skulls blow open; we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on their splintered stumps into the next shell hole; a lance-corporal crawls a mile and a half on his hands dragging . . . The sun goes down, night comes, the shells whine, life is at an end. (134)

The long list of images in a single sentence brings the reader into the text almost

as if he were watching a movie. As the reader navigates the sentence, he sees

each new image in the cinematic montage of the horrors of war. Each image

happens simultaneously and the reader is almost overwhelmed by the images

bombarding him with death and destruction. Death is everywhere. Then

Remarque allows the reader a chance to breathe: he closes the sentence and

sums up the reality of war in a short concrete sentence. “The sun goes down. . .

life is at an end.”

His simple language . . .

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In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses simile, syntax, and imagery to recreate the intensity and misery of life on the front lines.

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque literally recreates vivid, cinematic scenes of the grim reality of life on the front lines.