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Animal Farm
Key Terms
Animal Farm is a TRAGEDY.
• A tragedy is any narrative work (film, play,
novel) that portrays extremely
unfortunate events and has an unhappy
but meaningful ending.
Tragedy
Boxer is a TRAGIC HERO.
• A tragic hero is a great or virtuous
character in a dramatic tragedy who is
destined for downfall, suffering, or
defeat.
Tragic Hero
Animal Farm is a form of SATIRE.
Type of writing that ridicules human
weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring
about social reform; stages a critique of an
individual, group, or idea by exaggerating
faults and revealing hypocrisies
Attempts to persuade the reader to do or
believe something by showing the opposite
view as absurd or vicious and inhumane.
Satire
Satire in Animal Farm
Animal Farm is a FABLE.
• Brief often humorous story
• Teaches a moral, or a practical
lesson about life
• Characters of most fables are
animals that behave and speak
like humans
• Ex: Aesop’s Fables, La Fontaine’s
Fables
A story that can be read on two distinct
levels AND characters and events
represent something else
Are used by the writer to convey a moral
or philosophical
message
Animal Farm is an Allegory
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Figurative Language
Imagery
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Dramatic Irony
Propaganda
Rhetorical Questions
Loaded Language
Animal Farm uses many
types of literary devices.
Treating abstractions or inanimate
objects as human, that is, giving them
human attributes, powers, or feelings.
Figurative Language
Personification
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• Consists of descriptive words and phrases that recreate
sensory experiences for the reader.
• Usually appeals to one or more the five senses – sight,
hearing, smell, taste, and touch – to help the reader
imagine exactly what is being described.
Imagery
• But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You
young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of
you will scream your lives out at the block within a
year. To that horror we all must come‐cows, pigs, hens,
sheep, everyone. Even the horses and the dogs have no
better fate. You, Boxer, the very day that those great
muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to
the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you
down for the foxhounds. As for the dogs, when they
grow old and toothless Jones ties a brick round their
necks and drowns them in the nearest pond.
Imagery
Old Major’s Speech
• An account of a conversation, an
episode, or an event that happened
before the beginning of a story.
• Often interrupts the chronological
flow of a story to give the reader
information needed for the
understanding of a present
situation.
Flashback
• “Many years ago when I was a little
pig, my mother and the other sows
used to sing an old song of which they
knew only the tune and first three
words.”
Flashback
Old Major’s Speech
• Writer’s use of hints or clues to suggest
events that will occur later in the story.
• Hints and clues might be included in a
character’s dialogue or behavior or they
might be included in details of description.
• Creates suspense and makes readers eager
to find out what will happen.
Foreshadowing
• After the revolution, the three cows were in pain
because they had not been milked for 24 hours.
• The pigs milked the cows and then there were 5
full buckets of milk.
• When asked what would happen to the milk,
Napoleon stood in front of the milk and said,
“Never mind. The harvest is more important. I
shall follow in a few minutes.”
• When they animals came back that evening, the
milk was gone.
Foreshadowing
Disappearance of the Milk
Occurs when the reader or the
audiences knows something
important that a character does not
know.
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Irony in Animal
Farm
Propaganda
Language in any type
of media meant to
persuade or convince
Common Examples:
speeches, political
posters, commercials,
ads
• Those questions that do not
require a reply.
• Writers use them to suggest that
their arguments make the answer
obvious or self-evident.
Rhetorical Question
• You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of
gallons of milk have you given during this last year?
And what has happened to that milk which should
have been breeding up sturdy calves? Every drop of it
has gone down the throats of our enemies. And you hens,
how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and
how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens?
The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for
Jones and his men.
Rhetorical Question
Old Major’s Speech
• Consists of words with strongly
positive or negative connotations
intended to influence a reader’s or
listener's attitude.
Loaded Language
• ‘Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?
Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious and
short. We are born, we are given just so much food as
will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who
are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of
our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has
come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous
cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of
happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in
England is free. The life of an animal is misery and
slavery: that is the plain truth.
Loaded Language
Old Major’s Speech
•An allusion is an indirect
reference to a famous
person, place, event or
literary event.
Allusion
• Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon
are an allusion to the Russian leaders
Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin.
• The Battle of the Cowshed is an
allusion to the Russian Revolution.
Allusion