Animal Farm
Literary Devices
Langston Hughes
The Princess Bride
100
This is the last name of the last human owner of Manor Farm.
What is Jones?
100
"Surely Comrades you don’t want Jones back?" is an example of one of these?
What is a rhetorical question?
100
In one of his poems, Hughes states that his soul "has grown deep" like several of these, including the Nile, the Congo, the Euphrates and the Mississippi.
What are Rivers?
100
Before becoming her love interest, Westley works as Buttercup's "farm boy," doing whatever she asks, while obediently answering her commands with these three words.
What are "As you wish"?
200
This character "refused to learn any but the six letters which spelt her own name. She would form these very neatly out of pieces of twig, and would then decorate them with a flower or two and walk round them admiring them."
Who is Mollie?
200
In his poem "The Weary Blues", Langston Hughes writes: "Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. He played a few chords then he sang some more—", which is an example of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
According to one Hughes poem, one should "hold fast" to these, because if they die, "Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
What are dreams?
200
This is the (fictional) country where the story takes place.
What is Florin?
300
Mr. Jones's "especial pet," he was "a spy and a tale-bearer, but also a clever talker. He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all animals went when they died."
Who is Moses the Raven?
300
"Animal Farm" contains the dramatic, situational and verbal types of this literary device, which refers to the "expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite."
What is irony?
300
Between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s, this neighborhood in upper Manhattan became a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.
What is Harlem?
300
A colorless, odorless, and deadly poison from Australia that Westley spent two years building up an immunity to. He uses it to trick Vizzini in their battle of wits.
What is iocaine powder?
400
The number of dogs in Napoleon's personal guard.
What is 9?
400
A word's one of these refers to the associations called up by it, that go beyond its dictionary meaning.
What is its connotation?
400
These laws were an official effort to keep African Americans separate from whites in the southern United States for many years. They were in place from the late 1870s until the civil rights movement began in the 1950s. Their name comes from a once-popular stage performance that began in 1828.
What are Jim Crow laws?
400
This is the real name of the man Westley inherited the title of "Dread Pirate Roberts" from.
What is Ryan?
500
"Animal Farm" is one of these, a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is an allegory?
500
In his poem "Dream Deferred", Langton Hughes writes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-" The second and third lines of this quotation are an example of this literary device, which is defined as "the running on of a thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break."
What is enjambment?
500
This musical progression has a distinctive form in lyrics, phrase, chord structure, and duration. In its basic form, it is predominantly based on the I, IV, and V chords of a key.
What are the 12-Bar Blues?
500
A master swordsmith, and the father of Inigo, this man was murdered by Count Rugen for refusing to sell him a sword for a tenth of the promised price?
Who is Domingo Montoya?