Animal Farm Excerpt from Chapter 1: Old Major’s Speech
Part 1 Directions:
1) Click “file” then “make a copy”
2) Highlight the speech, according to the following colors, for the following rhetorical/persuasive
devices
...
Animal Farm Excerpt from Chapter 1: Old Major’s Speech
Part 1 Directions:
1) Click “file” then “make a copy”
2) Highlight the speech, according to the following colors, for the following rhetorical/persuasive
devices. (To highlight, drag your cursor over the section you want to change to a different color,
and then click on the marker in the toolbar and select the appropriate color)
Red=Repetition
Blue=Rhetorical Questions
Green=Sound Devices (alliteration and rhyme)
Yellow=Simile/Metaphor/Hyperbole/Personification
Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night. But I will come to the dream later.
I have something else to say first. I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and
before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired. I have had a long life, I have had much
time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as
well as any animal now living. It is about this that I wish to speak to you.
"Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of
it 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 slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a
year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
[Show More]