Important Quotations
Allegory: Who am I?
Definitions
Examples from the Text
Misc.
100
"Four legs good, two legs better!"
Who are the sheep?
100
This character represents propaganda in Animal Farm.
Who is Squealer?
100
An artistic work in which human vice or folly is attacked or criticized through irony and humor.
What is satire?
100
While Boxer's mantra of "Napoleon is always right" is an example of propaganda, is it also an example of ____________. (Think of the word "always".)
What is hyperbole?
100
This is the author of Animal Farm.
Who is George Orwell?
200
"Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?"
Who is Old Benjamin?
200
This character represents the Russian aristocracy.
Who is Mollie?
200
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
What is irony?
200
Squealer's use of "facts" to persuade the animals is an example of ____________________.
What is propaganda?
200
This character is described as cynical.
Who is Old Benjamin?
300
“Remove man from the scene, and the root of hunger and overwork is abolished forever”
Who is Old Major?
300
This character represents the Russian working class in support of Josef Stalin.
Who is Boxer?
300
A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
What is a scapegoat?
300
“the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but it was impossible to say which one was which” (141). This quotation is an example of _______________.
What is irony?
300
This symbol from the Lord of the Flies relates to the windmill of Animal Farm.
What is the conch?
400
“Then we have won back what we had before”
Who is Boxer?
400
This character represents Josef Stalin.
Who is Napoleon?
400
The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in a narrative, dramatic or pictorial form; a prolonged metaphor; a visible symbol representing an abstract idea (or something that is from outside of the novel)
What is allegory?
400
In Chapter 5, Orwell makes a point of highlighting the animal's stupidity during the pigs' debate for the windmill. This scene an example of _____________________.
What is satire?
400
The pigs buy this product after selling Boxer to the knacker.
What is alcohol (whiskey)?
500
“I warn every animal on this farm to keep his eyes very wide open. For we have reasons to think that some of Snowball’s secret agents are lurking among us!”
Who is Squealer?
500
This character represents Czar Nicholas II.
Who is Mr. Jones?
500
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
500
The purpose of making Snowball the scapegoat is to _____________________.
What is to unify the animals? (To create a common enemy)
500
The animals chant this after they were given counterfeit money.
What is "Death to Frederick"?
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