Literary Device Examples from Animal Farm

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"as strong as any two ordinary horses put together"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Emotive Language

• Hyperbole

"our lives are miserable, laborious, and short"

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Emotive Language

• Hyperbole

"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

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

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Emotive Language

• Hyperbole

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

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

"No, comrades, a thousand times no!"

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole