Where can I find metaphors, similes, allusions, and personification in the novel, 1984?

For
figurative language, one need look no further than the beginning of 's futuristic novel that
haunts the twentieth-century in its parallels. 

Here are some examples of
allusions, or references to something in history, literature, or the
Bible, to add to those previously given for an earlier question:

• In Chapter One, Orwell alludes to the London bombings of World War II in
  his descriptions of the buildings that are dilapidated, "And the bombed sites where the
  plaster dust whirled in the air...."
• The Thought Police come and seize
  people much like the SS of Nazism and the secret police under Russia's Stalin.


• The Two-Minute Hate uses the vision of Emmanuel Goldstein as the composite of all that
  is loathsome. This Jewish man's face is recalls the propaganda posters of the
  Jude which the Nazis hung as the cause of their economic woes. Here
  Goldstein is also the target of the people's hatred.
• Whensees the young
  woman behind him at the Two-Minute Hate, he transfers his hatred onto...
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