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Analysing Ishiguro's language is essential for AO2 (analysing the writer's methods). Never Let Me Go is a novel where what is not said matters as much as what is said. This lesson examines Ishiguro's key techniques — euphemism, understatement, imagery, and narrative voice — with close analysis of specific passages.
Euphemism is the single most important language technique in the novel. Ishiguro uses sanitised language to expose how societies normalise atrocity:
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