All in Allegory
The historical event which Animal Farm is based on.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This is the original number of Commandments the animals set up for their civilization to work under.
What is Seven?
This animal is largely responsible for disseminating the "truths" and explaining away the bad situations on the farm.
Who is Squealer?
This animal started the movement against Jones with all of his powerful ideas and a compelling speech.
Who is Old Major?
A story where the author uses humor, irony, subverted expectations, hyperbole, and other tools to ridicule someone/something in order to teach a lesson.
What is satire?
Snowball represents this Russian Revolutionary
Who is Leon Trotsky?
This is the first action which directly violated the 7 commandments.
Sleeping in a bed
This person was used by the pigs at first as a symbol of fear and misery.
Who is Mr. Jones?
This animal runs away from Animal Farm, representing one social class's unwillingness to give up anything for the good of all.
Who is Mollie the Mare, representing the rich upper-class (or Bourgeoisie)?
Sugarcandy Mountain, an animal vision of heaven, is shared by Moses the Raven with a lot of _______.
What is Detail/Descriptive Language?
A farm owner and disheveled mess, Mr. Jones represents this person from history.
Who is Nicholas the Czar?
This individual is responsible for writing the 7 commandments.
Who is Snowball?
After expelling this person, Napoleon uses them as the new symbol of an enemy.
Who is Snowball?
This group of animals represents the militant secret police utilized by Napoleon, symbolizing Joseph Stalin's KGB forces.
Who are Napoleon's dogs?
The reader knows that the Commandments are being changed, but the animals don't. This is an example of ____________.
What is Dramatic Irony?
Who are the hard-working lower class abused by Stalin?
After suspicions that the commandments did not always read the way they do, this individual is discovered changing the commandments.
Who is Squealer?
Napoleon turns to this once the propaganda of Squealer's speaking seems like it will no longer be enough.
Who are the 9 dogs and/or the threat of violence?
Which animals are portrayed as the smartest, and who do they represent?
The pigs represent the new rulers from the Russian Revolution.
Squealer uses this in order to make his propaganda effective, often confusing the animals of lesser intelligence.
What is rhetoric?
When he both purchases products from Animal Farm with counterfeit money AND sabotages the windmill, the betrayal by Frederick represents this historical event.
What is Hitler going against his non-aggression pact.
These two misspellings are identified in the original 7 Commandments (demonstrating the animals' lack of intelligence).
What are
Friend spelled freind, and
an "S" facing the wrong way?
The individual responsible for poetic glorification of Napoleon, rather than just the whitewashing of the issues on the farm.
Who is Minimus?
Which animal is portrayed as inactive despite being aware of the situation, and who do they represent?
Benjamin the Donkey represents intelligent critics who do not take action.
Snowball being very planning-oriented while Napoleon is more about taking control and bossing animals around is an example of this.
What is a Foil/Contrast/Juxtaposition?