A figure of speech is a word or phrase that means something different than its immediate, literal meaning. Examples of figures of speech include metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, puns, and others.
Animal Farm is chock-full of interesting and important figures of speech. Chapter one contains an abundance of figures of speech. Personification and metaphor are two common—but very important—types of figures of speech that can be found in chapter one.
Personificationis a figure of...
A figure of speech is a word or phrase that means something different than its immediate, literal meaning. Examples of figures of speech include metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, puns, and others.
Animal Farm is chock-full of interesting and important figures of speech. Chapter one contains an abundance of figures of speech. Personification and metaphor are two common—but very important—types of figures of speech that can be found in chapter one.
Personification is a figure of speech in which a nonhuman object is given human characteristics. An example of personification occurs very early in chapter one of Animal Farm:
With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side.
A ring of light is not human and it does not literally get up and dance. Therefore, depicting the ring of light as being able to mimic the human act of dancing makes this statement an example of personification.
A metaphor is a figure of speech which implicitly compares two things that are not directly related.
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
Considering the animals on the farm are not literal slaves, this statement is a metaphor. The animals' grueling daily labor and their resulting unhappiness make their lives easily comparable to slavery.
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