The Characters
Another name for the working class.
What is the proletariate?
A word meaning to having a hidden meaning; puzzling; secretive.
What is cryptic?
The owner of Foxwood Farm
Who is Mr. Pilkington
to surrender; give up; waive the white flag
What is capitulate
The name of Russia's first parliament.
What is the Duma?
A word meaning to reconcile or regain trust, friendship, etc.
What is conciliatory?
The idea of combining small, peasant farms into larger farms where all land, tools, and labor would be shared was known as this.
What is collectivization
to crouch or shrink back in fear
What is cower
Tsar Nicholas II treats his believers to this event in 1905.
What is Bloody Sunday?
"...the whole farm burst out into 'Beasts of England' in tremendous unison. The cows lowed it, the dogs whines it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, and the ducks quacked it." best illustrates this literary element?
What is Onomatopoeia?
Event where one million people were executed and seven million were sent to concentration camps was called this.
What is the Great Purge
to rest; sleep peacefully; tranquility
What is repose
Another name for a Russian Marxist?
What is a Social Democrat?
Making light of social customs, norms, etc. _Animal Farm_ could be considered written in this fashion.
What is satire?
The philosophy of Animalism was based on this character's thoughts.
Who is Old Major
joyous, merry; cheerful
What is blithely
As part of collectivization, the larger of the farm state was called this...in Russian.
What is the sovkhoz?
"They did not know which was more shocking- the treachery of the animals who leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel _retribution_ they had just witnessed." Retribution can be best defined as this.
What is punishment, something deserved for an action done earlier; what is revenge?
George Orwell's actual name (pseudonym).
Who is Eric A. Blair
strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, or insulting
What is indignation