Friday, November 21, 2014

What are examples of figurative language such as metaphor, simile, imagery and parallelism in Animal Farm?

uses ,
which is description using any of the
five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, at
the start of the
book when he writes:

With the ring of

light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he [Farmer Jones] lurched across the
yard,
kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of
beer from the barrel in the
scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs.
Jones was already snoring.


We can
visualize all that Mr. Jones does, and we can hear Mrs.
Jones snoring.
Another example of sight and sound imagery is the following:



Mrs. Jones looked out of the bedroom window, saw what was
happening,
hurriedly flung a few possessions into a carpet bag, and slipped
out of the farm by another way.
Moses sprang off his perch and flapped after
her, croaking loudly.


uses hyberbole
or exaggeration when he says of the animals that they:



are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and
the very
instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are...


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