TX-English II A
Animal Farm, Part 6: Author's Purpose
Assignment Active
Identifying Literary Devices
Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made
a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes. Their
method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their
eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. Napoleon
acted swiftly and ruthlessly. He ordered the hens' rations
to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so
much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by
death. The dogs saw to it that these orders were carried
out. For five days the hens held out, then they capitulated
and went back to their nesting boxes. Nine hens had died
in the meantime.
-Animal Farm,
George Orwell
Which literary device does Orwell most use to support
his purpose in writing in this passage?
O characters, to show that what happens on the farm
is fiction
O allegory, to show similarities between the farm and
the Soviet Union
O point of view, to show how the characters think
about the murders
O setting, to show that events in the Soviet Union may
have been caused by the economy
English 2 II