Rhetorical Devices in Old Major's Speech

"But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it?"

• anecdote

• rhetorical question

• adjective

• alligeration

"There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in one single word--MAN. MAN is the only real enemy we have. Remove MAN from the scene, and the root cause of hunger... is gone forever. MAN is the only creature that comes without producing..."

• anecdote

• rhetorical question

• adjective

• repetition

"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,... and I think I may understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living."

• credibility/ethos/reliability/trust

• emotions/pathos/feelings

• logic/reasoning/facts/logos

"Man serves the interest of no creature except himself."

• assertion

• adjective

• rhetorical question

• rule of three

"Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."

• rhetorical question

• attack

• rule of three

• repetition

"As for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond."

• anecdote AND ethos/credibility/trust

• anecdote AND pathos/emotions/feelings

• anecdote AND logic/reasoning

What word does Old Major repeat throughout for the Loaded Word effect because it has an underlying meaning in Communism/Animalism?

• rebellion

• comrade

• overthrow

• man

"Many years ago, when I was a little pig, my mother and other sows used to sing an old song of which they knew only the tune and the first three words. I had known that tune in my infancy, but it long since passed out of my mind."

• anecdote

• rhetorical question

• adjective

• figurative language

The use of the word "cruel" to describe the whips and the use of "fruitful" to describe England's land in the song, "Beasts of England."

• anecdotes

• adjectives

• loaded words

• exaggeration

"I am twelve years old..."

• ethos/credibility/trust/confidence

• logos/logic/reasoning

• pathos/emotions/feelings