The UK – basic facts
The Name of the British Flag.
What is ‘The Union Jack’?
The phrase which is often used to describe the extent of the British empire at its peak.
What is ‘The Empire on which the sun never sets’?
The name of the author who wrote ‘The White Man’s Burden’ and ‘The Jungle Book’.
Who was Rudyard Kipling?
The term used to describe a sense of national belonging when living in England and/or Britain.
What is ‘Englishness’, ‘Britishness’ or ‘National identity’?
The name of the author of ‘Animal Farm’ as well as the decade when it was published.
Who was George Orwell? Published in the 1940s (1945).
The four countries that make up the United Kingdom (the UK).
What are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
The size of the British Empire at its peak as part of the world’s land mass (percentage).
What is 25%?
The former British colony, which was described as ‘the Jewel in the Crown’.
What is India?
The abbreviation ‘BAME’ is short for…
What is ‘Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic’?
Explanation of the setting in Animal farm (include the two names given for the farm, as well as which country in which the novel is set).
What are ‘Manor Farm’, ‘Animal Farm’, and England?
The current head of state of the UK.
Who is King Charles III?
The term used to describe when the British and the Europeans in general perceive other peoples and cultures from their own narrow-minded perspective.
What is ‘Ethnocentrism’/’Eurocentrism’?
The terms used to describe the dismantling of the British empire, which is the process when former British colonies become independent or the term used to describe the situation after the end of colonization.
What is ‘Decolonisation’ or ‘Postcolonialism’?
Find at least two terms that can be used to describe Britain’s transition from being settled by only white people to now consisting of various ethnicities and cultures.
What are ‘Diversity’, ‘Multiculturalism’, ‘Heterogenous society’, Cultural hybridity’, ‘Conviviality’ (peaceful co-existence among different cultures and ethnicities)...?
Name at least five different characters in the novel/fable ‘Animal Farm’.
Snowball, Napoleon, Benjamin, Squeeler, Bower, Clover, Mr Jones, Mr Pilkington, Old Major, Mr Frederick, Mr Whymper, Moses, Mollie, Muriel…
The term used to describe Britain’s resignation from the EU.
What is Brexit?
The term used to describe Britain’s current close and formal relationship and cooperation with some of the former British colonies, which still exist today.
What is ‘the Commonwealth’?
Another specific word for ‘narrative’, which describes the language used about the British colonies and colonised people(s).
What is ‘Discourse’?
Explain the term ‘Woke’.
What is the term, which is used especially about racial prejudice, sexism and discrimination, and is often referred to as identity politics (the left-wing/progressive)?
(The term originated in the 1930s in the US, and was revived by the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014).
A greek term which means the same as ‘personification’ (synonym).
What is ‘Anthropomorphism’?
The number of years Queen Elizabeth II served as the Queen of the UK.
What is 70?
Find at least one of two possible synonyms for ‘contrast’, which we have used during the course to describe the differences between ‘Us vs. the Other’, such as ‘civilised vs. uncivilised’.
What is ‘dichotomy’ or ‘binary opposition’?
The term used to describe a language used by non-native speakers of for example English. For example when a Dane and a German speak English together.
What is ‘Lingua Franca’?
Make a list of at least four different aspects/tools/concepts, which were parts of your analysis when you analysed the speech entitled ‘Chicken Tikka Masala Speech’.
What are ‘Type of speech’, ‘The rhetorical pentagram’, ‘Modes of persuasion’, ‘Rhetorical devices’, ‘Argumentation’ and ‘Connotations’?
The are seven maxims/commandments, which all animals agree on after the initial revolution on the farm. Give one example of how one of these maxims is altered/changed during the process in the novel, and explain which quote replaces these seven maxims at the end of the novel.