animal farm help please?
what type of figurative language is this?
“..he immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with the News of the World on his face” (Orwell 19).
if its anything at all
also, is this an anecdote?
“With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring” (Orwell 3).
please help, its appreciated
The first one isn’t figurative language. It’s just a description of what someone did. The “News of the World” part refers to a newspaper, and the sentence means he lay down & covered his face with a newspaper to keep out the light so he could take a nap.
The second one could be called an anecdote, since it is a short description of an incident. That’s one definition of an anecdote. Some people might say it is one. But I would not call it an anecdote, because an anecdote is usually a short story that makes or illustrates some kind of point or has a punch line, and I don’t see that that one really has a point or illustrates anything … and it’s not really a story, but only seems to be part of a story.
See the source below for various definitions of “anecdote” and decide for yourself whether you would want to call it an anecdote
Jake Thackray – Sister Josephine
