Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Literary Devices

Explanation and Analysis—Kipple:

Dick's novel is known for popularizing the concept of "kipple," an accumulation of consumer junk that seems to reproduce on its own. In Chapter 8, this motif appears alongside an instance of situational irony:

The scavengers’ building impressed him; large and modern, it held a good number of high-class purely office employees. The deep-pile carpets, the expensive genuine wood desks, reminded him that garbage collecting and trash disposal had, since the war, become one of Earth’s important industries. The entire planet had begun to disintegrate into junk, and to keep the planet habitable for the remaining population the junk had to be hauled away occasionally…or, as Buster Friendly liked to declare, Earth would die under a layer—not of radioactive dust—but of kipple.

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Explanation and Analysis—Peaches:

In Chapter 13, John Isidore drives home with precious food and wine to share with Pris. Dick uses imagery to highlight the rare "pleasure" still available to the characters through food, even in the techno-dystopia of the novel:

The smell of peaches and cheese eddied about the car, filling [John's] nose with pleasure.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Situational Irony 2 key examples