Read the passage from chapter 2 of Animal Farm. Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of be
er in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched. A unanimous resolution was passed on the spot that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum. All were agreed that no animal must ever live there. The animals had their breakfast, and then Snowball and Napoleon called them together again. "Comrades,” said Snowball, "it is half-past six and we have a long day before us. Today we begin the hay harvest.” Which quotation from this passage is an example of foreshadowing? “Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in.” “The farmhouse should be preserved as a museum. All were agreed that no animal must ever live there.” “The animals had their breakfast, and then Snowball and Napoleon called them together again.” “‘Comrades,’ said Snowball, ‘it is half-past six. . . . Today we begin the hay harvest.’”
The quotation that is an example of foreshadowing is “The farmhouse should be preserved as a museum. All were agreed that no animal must ever live there”.
Foreshadowing is a literary device that the writer uses to give a <em>hint</em> of what is going to happen later in the story. In this case, the fact that <em>“no animal must ever live there”</em> gives the reader a clue that, at some point, <em>this situation is going to change.</em> Towards the end of the story, the reader learn that Napoleon and the other pigs finish living in the farmhouse that they had prohibited the other animals to live in.
The effect of the couplets in "To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King\s Most Excellent Majesty" is that D) they allow a poet to link lines of poetry together using sound.
Rev. Barbee notices "the burst of a single jewel-like star" and says that "it was though the very constellations knew their impending sorrow. All of nature, in other words, sympathizes with the loss that the Founder's death makes them feel.
