Animal Farm
What is the setting?
Manor Farm
What is a Simile?
Comparing two things using like or as.
Who were the main characters in the Davenports?
Olivia, Amy rose, Helen, and Ruby.
What was the theme of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech?
To treat everyone equally
What does Animal Farm represent?
The Russian Revolution.
What does Boxer represent?
Boxer represents the Russian working class.
I was so hungry I even ate the plate. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?
Hyperbole
What was the theme of the davenports?
Family expectations can interfere with personal desires
What was the purpose of his speech? What was he trying to achive?
Civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
What does the cage represent in the poem Sympathy?
Racial oppression and the struggle for civil rights and freedom.
What was Napoleons role on the farm?
Rebellion leader.
Name 5 types of figurative language.
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Idiom, etc...
What was the setting of the Davenports?
Chicago
What is repetition? How did MLK use this in his speech (one example)
A word or phrase used multiple times in a text, for the purpose of emphasizing an emotion or idea.
ex: "I have a dream"
What does the Black box represent in the Lottery?
Tradition
What was the Battle of Cowshed?
The first fight between the animals and the humans after the Rebellion.
That will cost you an arm and a leg! What type of figurative language is this?
Idiom
What is one of the climax's in the Davenports
Olivia confesses that she actually loves Washington Dwight because he gives a purpose.
What rhetorical devices does he use in his speech? Give one example.
personification, metaphors, and symbolism, etc...
example: “This momentous decree is a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice”, etc...
What do the letters symbolize in the Possibility of Evil?
They represented crass, bitter and unwantedly exposed personal problems.
What was the last and final commandment?
All animals are equal except for some.
What is an Oxymoron?
A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings.
What was one of the conflicts in the Davenports?
The parents forcing certain marriages on their children.
What is the significance of Dr. King using five scores in the beginning of his speech?
It was to show that the Emancipation Proclamation stated slaves would be free but 100 years later they were still not free.
What does the Monkeys paw symbolize?
Fate