Literature: Figures of Speech - Tuesday, 4 August Exercise 1: Identify and understand personification
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow'.
I meant to do my work today
Richard Le Gallienne
I meant to do my work today,
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly flitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.
And the wind went sighing over the land,
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand -
So what could I do but laugh and go?
Questions
1. What human qualities are referred to in the poem?
2. Why did the poet write this poem?
3. What two figures of speech is used in line 2? What effect does it have?

1. The human qualities referred in the poem are: brown bird sang, leaves were calling me, wind went sighing, tossing the grasses, Held out its shining hand

2. The poem write this poem because he was procrastinating

3. In line 2, the figures used is personification, the effects it have is that the readers we're visualizing all the imagery on the poem.

Explanation:

the excerpt from chapter 2 of "animal farm", by george orwell that is an example of foreshadowing is "these three (snowball, napoleon, and squealer) had elaborated old major's teachings into a complete system of thought to which they gave the name of animalism." animal farm is an allegory of how czarist russia developed into communist russia with all its corruption. old major's teachings represent marx's theories turned into communism, animalism, by the three pigs. this foreshadows the oppression and corruption that will follow this revolt.

i think the answer is either c or d

im thinking d might make more sense though

sorry if im wrong