What literary technique would this be?

Question

Abandon all logic ye who enter here, because we are about to start talking Lucy. You might want to leave reason and science by the door while you’re at it, you won’t have much call to use either of those for the next 90 minutes or so. - giantfreakinrobot.com

So I'm not really sure if this has any literary techniques but if there isn't, what kind of language is the writer using?

Also what would this literary technique be? "People have their minds broken" its more like a literal meaning but I'm not sure what technique it's using.

Answer 1

"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" is the usual English translation of the motto inscribed on the gates of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy.

“THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of Power divine,
Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”

Such characters, in color dim, I mark’d
Over a portal’s lofty arch inscribed.

http://www.bartleby.com/20/103.html

The author is alluding to that well-known quote.

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Alternatively, the author could be reusing a phrase they have heard before, without being aware of its origin. That could be termed intertextuality, although that's not exactly a 'literary technique'.