Transcript Animal Farm Literary Terms

Animal Farm
Literary Terms
Fable
• Fictional story
• About animals
• Behaving
• Like humans, with a moral at the
• End!
Satire
• A piece of literature
designed to ridicule
a subject.
• While satire can be funny,
its aim is NOT to amuse,
but to arouse contempt.
Allegory
• A story in which an event or
character can stand for itself
and something else.
• An extended metaphor
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Begins with Once upon a time…
Happened long ago
Include fantasy and make believe
Have good vs. evil characters
Royalty is usually present
Happy endings
Irony
•Situational Irony –
What is happening is the
opposite of what is expected.
Example: A championship swimmer
drowns; a fire station burns down
Irony
• Verbal Irony –
The contrast between what is said and
what is actually meant.
Little brother doesn’t want to turn off the
video game so he’s scowling. You say,
“Glad to see you’re so happy to turn off
the game.”
Irony
• Dramatic Irony
The audience or reader
knows more than the character.
Example: The audience knows
Juliet drank a sleeping potion and
is not dead; Romeo doesn’t know.
Euphemism
• Greek word meaning “use of good
words”
• Definition: Usually a polite way to
refer to something unpleasant.
• Can change over time
(lame---crippled---handicapped—
disabled)
Examples of Euphemisms
– Unemployment – “between jobs”
– Death – “passed away”
– War Dept. – “Dept. of Defense”
– MX Missle – “The Peacekeeper”
-- old person – “senior citizen”
--false teeth – “dentures”
Denotation and
Connotation
• Denotation – dictionary meaning
– Ex: Home: a place where one lives
• Connotation – the emotional
implications attached to a word
– Ex: Home: warmth, comfort
Utopia
• An ideal or perfect place
• Sugarcandy Mountain
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Sunday = No work
Food = Unlimited w/ treats!
Moses = teller of tales
Get there if you work hard!
RR – used to make people not
complain and do their work
Propaganda
• Definition: Information that is
spread for the purpose of
promoting a cause
• Bandwagon, Glittering
Generalities, Testimonial, Fear,
Name Calling, Logical Fallacies,
Exaggeration, Card Stacking