Four great motives for writing
The first great motive for writng
What is sheer egoism?
Reason/____ for writing
used by Orwell being the speaker throughout this essay. He described himself as a lonely, unpopular child, which speaks to his character and how he came to be a writer. In this essay, Orwell has clearly defined himself as the speaker.
What is persona?
Orwell wrote his first poem at the age of ___
What is five?
Orwell very rarely had his ____ in his life until he was eight
What is his father?
The second great motive for writing
What is aesthetic enthusiasm
What makes a ______
What is a writer?
Orwell uses _____ to persuade readers about why he writes
What is diction?
At age _____, Orwell wrote a poems which was published in the newspaper
What is eleven?
Orwell was a very ____, and _____ child
What is lonely and unpopular?
The third great motive for writing
What is historical impulse?
How who you are/ your __________ affect what kind of writer you become
What is experiences?
this is used by Orwell when he is discussing why he wants to write books; to expose a lie, or draw attention to something. He wrote Animal Farm about the Bolshevik Revolution, and Homage to Catalonia with the anger about innocent people being falsely accused.
What is an allegory?
Orwells “mind story” habit continued until he was __ years old
What is twenty-five?
Orwell’s tiger in his poem had ____ ____ _____
What are chair like teeth?
The fourth great motive for writing
What is political purpose?
________ of being a writer
What are struggles?
this is used by Orwell in many different ways, with all of the different pieces of writing or things that happened in the world that he referred to. Some examples are Paradise Lost, Homage to Catalonia, etc.
What is an allusion?
By the end of ____, Orwell wrote a poem expressing his dilemma of his political standpoint
What is 1936?
Orwell wants to make political writing into an ___
What is art?
Four great motives for writing
What is sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose?
______ for writing
What are motivations?
this is used by orwell in the beginning of the essay when he says “it is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage: in some perverse mood; but if he escapes from his early influences all together; he will have killed his impulse to write.” This is a cumulative sentence by combining these two sentences together to prove a point.
What are cumulative sentences?
Orwell completed his first novel when he was _____
What is thirty?
“I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, and humbug generally”
What is humbug generally?