Literary Device Examples from Animal Farm

"the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"as strong as any two ordinary horses put together"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"what is the nature of this life of ours?"

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Emotive Language

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"our lives are miserable, laborious, and short"

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Emotive Language

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength"

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Emotive Language

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"But is this simply part of the order of nature"

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Emotive Language

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year"

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"No, comrades, a thousand times no!"

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever."

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"I know, as surely as I see this straw beneath my feet"

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole