Genre
Non-fiction
Setting and Context
Colonial Burma
Narrator and Point of View
George Orwell. First person.
Tone and Mood
Contemplative, analytic memoir.
Protagonist and Antagonist
George Orwell
Major Conflict
Inner conflict
Climax
The shooting of the elephant
Foreshadowing
Fetching a rifle
Understatement
Description of his interior emotions
Allusions
N/A
Imagery
The crowded shanty town; noise of the crowd; the muggy day; the elephant's blood.
Paradox
N/A
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The wise, grandmotherly elephant.
