Are You Copying Me?
This character represents Joseph Stalin in Animal Farm
Who is Napoleon?
This rhetorical tactic convinces the audience by manipulating their emotions.
What is pathos?
Total number of original commandments
What is 7?
believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
What is cynical?
This group's actions reinforce thematic concepts around power-hoarding behavior
Who are the pigs?
Who is Boxer
Animal Farm is an allegory for this historical event.
What is the Russian Revolution?
Snowball represents this historical figure in Russian history.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
What is logos?
The primary purpose of the commandments was to make sure that the animals did not behave like _______.
What are humans?
exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way
What is tyrannical?
The thematic statement Orwell is trying to make about power with this book.
What is any variation of absolute power corrupts absolutely?
Four legs good, two legs bad” is repeated by which group on the farm?
Who are the sheep?
This economic system doesn't have social classes or allow citizens to own businesses.
What is communism?
Boxer, Clover, and all of the other farm animals except for the pigs and dogs represent this group of people.
Who is the Russian Working Class?
Ethos is a method of convincing an audience that the speaker is _________.
What is credible?
The pigs change this commandment to read, "No animal shall sleep on a bed _____ ______."
What is with sheets?
a person whose business is the disposal of dead or unwanted animals, especially those whose flesh is not fit for human consumption
What is a knacker
This symbolizes Russia and later the Soviet Union
What is the farm?
"Jones would come back! That's right, Jones would come back!"
Who is Squealer?
The name of the paradise that Moses tells the animals all about.
What is Sugarcandy Mountain
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The first time Squealer uses all 3 tactics against the animals, he is convincing them that is fair for the pigs to get these two things all to themselves.
What are milk and apples?
The pigs change this commandment to read, "No animal shall kill another animal ______ ______."
What is without cause?
a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others
What is a scapegoat
The event from the story that most strongly reinforces the theme of speaking up against something you know is wrong
What is Boxer's death?
“Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?”
Who is Mollie?
What event causes the animals to rebel and take over the farm?
Jones doesn't feed the animals/the animals break into the feed shed
This character represents George Orwell in the novel.
Who is Benjamin?
Eventually, the fear of Mr. Jones returning wears off, and the pigs trigger this emotion in the other animals instead by having "spontaneous demonstrations."
What is pride?
Literacy is used against the animals by manipulating the commandments because they are all unable to ________.
What is Read/write?
sarcastic, critical, and mocking another's weaknesses.
What is satirical?
This structure symbolizes the false hope given to the workers of a communist society by corrupt leaders
What is the windmill?
“A bird’s wing, comrades,” he said, “is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg. The distinguishing mark of man is the HAND, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.”
Who is Snowball?
The number of attempts it takes the animals to build a functional windmill.
What is 3?
This character represents the Russian Orthodox Church as it functioned under the monarchy.
Who is Moses
"Discipline, comrades, iron discipline! That is the watchword for today. One false step, and our enemies would be upon us. Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?”
This character has been secretly changing the commandments on the barn wall at night while the others were asleep.
Who is Squealer?
What is obstinate?
This structure represents a seat of power in society; whoever controls it, controls the farm.
What is the farmhouse?
“Comrades,” he said quietly, “do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!”
Who is Napoleon?
The human who acts as a broker between Animal Farm and other humans
Who is Mr. Whymper?
Which characters represent a generation brainwashed as youths and used as a means of control through violence much like the KGB.
The nine puppies/dogs
Squealer would talk with the tears rolling down his cheeks of Napoleon’s wisdom, the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere, even and especially the unhappy animals who still lived in ignorance and slavery on other farms. It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.
What is ethos?
Snowball reduces all of the commandments into this easy-to-remember maxim for some of the dumber animals to memorize.
What is, "Four legs good. Two legs bad."
T/F Squealer's manipulation was manifest to all of the animals throughout the story
What is false?
This structure represents the society's collective memory and shows how easily it can be manipulated by making small changes incrementally
What is the barn/7 Commandments on the wall?
"I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired."
Who is Old Major?
The name of the owner of Foxwood Farm
Who is Mr. Pilkington?
Mr. Jones represents this Russian czar. (Be very specific for full credit)
Who is Nicholas II?
The Greek philosopher who is considered the father or rhetoric based on his writings
Who is Plato?
The total number of commandments that the pigs explicitly rewrite on the barn wall throughout the course of the book
What is 4?
The group of animals used to suppress any thoughts of rebellion on the farm
Who are the dogs?
What are the horn and hoof?
“It says, ‘No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,”
Who is Muriel?
The name of the pig that tasted all of Napoleon's food to make sure it was not poisoned
Who is Pinkeye?