Life on the Farm
This is the name of the farm before the animals rename it.
Manor Farm
This species of animal takes on the leadership role after the rebellion, due to their intelligence.
The pigs
Old Major, whose vision inspires the revolution, is generally understood to represent this combination of real historical thinkers.
Karl Marx and/or Vladimir Lenin
This is the name given to the political philosophy Old Major inspires among the animals.
Animalism
A sentence must contain a subject and what else?
Predicate OR Noun and Verb
This farmer, the original owner of the farm, is known for his neglect and heavy drinking.
Mr Jones
This pig eventually emerges as the farm's most persuasive public speaker and propagandist.
Squealer
Mr. Jones, the neglectful farm owner overthrown by the animals, represents this figure from Russian history.
Tsar Nicholas II
This is the maximum number of legs an animal may have and still be considered a "friend," according to the Seven Commandments.
Four
This term describes a group of words that looks like a sentence but is missing a subject, a verb, or a complete thought.
a fragment
This old boar's dream and speech in Chapter 1 inspires the animals to revolt.
Old Major
These two pigs compete for leadership in the early chapters, most notably clashing over the windmill.
Napoleon and Snowball
Snowball, driven off the farm by force, is widely read as representing this real-life rival of Stalin.
Leon Trotsky
This commandment, meant to unify all animals against humans, is boiled down into a simple chant repeated by the sheep.
"Four legs good, two legs bad"
This connecting word requires the student to introduce a contrast or unexpected twist.
Conjunction - "but"
This is the name the animals give the farm after taking it over.
What is Animal Farm?
Napoleon secretly raises these animals from puppyhood, later revealing them as his enforcers.
Dogs (puppies)
Napoleon, who consolidates power through fear and force, represents this Soviet leader.
Joseph Stalin
This is the location where the pigs paint the Seven Commandments for all animals to see.
The big barn wall
This type of sentence joins two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction.
Compound sentence
This event is when the animals successfully defend their farm against Mr Jones and neighbouring farmers.
What is the Battle of the Cowshed?
This vain, not-so-bright cart-horse is obsessed with her ribbons and sugar, symbolizing the vanity of the old regime's comforts.
Mollie
The dogs Napoleon secretly trains to attack his rivals represent this Soviet institution used to enforce loyalty through terror.
the secret police (KGB)
This structural document represents the real-world Soviet constitution and set of revolutionary ideals that were gradually corrupted in practice
the Seven Commandments
This type of sentence contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
Complex sentence