Ch.1 moment old majors's speech

• 'how many eggs have you laid.'


  this foreshadows to later events in the novel where the chickens have to give up their eggs to Napoleon.
• 'you will never see one of them again.'


  emotive language
• 'but no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end.'


  exaggeration- old major himself has lived a long long life, so it is not true.
• 'cut your throat and boil you down.'


  use of scare tactics and exaggeration to persuade the animals.
• 'almost overnight we could become rich and free.'


  this is exaggeration, and simply not true they could not be rich and free overnight.
• 'all men are enemies, all animals are comrades.'


  maxims - short memorable sentences. The use of the contrast between 'enemies' and 'comrades' show the propaganda used by Old Major
• 'dogs had suddenly caught sight of them.'


  foreshadowing, irony -> foreshadows to 'all animals are equal'.
• 'all animals are equal'


  one of the commandments, the biggest topic of old major's speech, gets broken many times. Shows a sense of unity.
• 'comrades' 


  suggests fighting on the same side- united and close
• 'what is the nature of this life of ours?


  rhetorical question -> ironic because their lives later become worse on the farm.
• 'miserable, laborious and short.'


  list of three -> exaggeration and not true, old major has had a long life and many animals can retire.
• 'beasts of england'


  song that unites the animals -> a symbol of what they were trying to create.
• 'slaughtered with hideous cruelty.'

  graphic description and emotive language
• 'no animal in england' ... 'no animal in england'


  repetition, emphasising techniques
• 'that is the plain truth'


  old major is using opinion as fact.
• 'man is the only creature who consumes without producing.'


  reasons to hate man. uses the derogatory noun 'creature'