Genre
What is genre of form?
A literary element demonstrating the sequence of events of a story, revealing the cause-and-effect relationship between them.
What is plot?
When the author tells us explicitly what the character is like.
What is direct characterization?
A symbol that is dependent on historical, geographical, or contextual information.
What is a cultural symbol?
A character representative of the working class.
Who is Boxer?
A narration intended to enforce a useful truth, usually centering animals.
What is a fable?
Creating a false narrative about how a historical event happened so as to promote one's own personal agenda or beliefs.
What is rewriting history?
When the author shows us what the character is like through what they say, do, think or how they interact.
What is indirect characterization?
A symbol whose meaning remains the same across cultural boundaries.
What is a universal symbol?
A character representative of the Soviet propaganda machine.
Who is Squealer?
An imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives.
What is a dystopia?
Ways of achieving a particular result by frightening people so much that they do what you want them to do.
A character who changes significantly over the course of the story, emotionally or morally.
What is a dynamic character?
A recurring symbol whose meaning shifts throughout the text.
What is a motif?
A group of characters representative of the military or secret police.
Who are Napoleon's dogs?
A way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc. : humor that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, society, etc.
What is satire?
The systematic effort to manipulate other people’s beliefs, attitudes, or actions by means of words, images, or symbols.
What is propaganda?
A simple character, with one or two defining traits; often serves a specific purpose in the plot.
What is a flat character?
A character representative of the upper class who could afford to leave Russia after the Revolution.
Who is Mollie?
A complex character, with multiple traits and motivations; feels like a real person.
What is a round character?
A story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation.
What is an allegory?
Singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment.
What is scapegoating?
A character who remains largely the same throughout the story.
What is a static character?
A character representative of religious influences.
Who is Moses?
A character modeled after Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, who proposes a utopian model of life.
Who is Old Major?