Animal Farm- Quotes & Metalanguage

“cruel and cunning control over the other animals”.

adjective

Each character in Animal Farm is an ____ of several key people in the Russian Revolution

allegory

“man is the only animal that consumes without producing”,

anaphora

pigs walking on hind legs at the end of the novella is an example of _____ as they have exhibited human-like tendencies

anthropomorphism

“who are capable of [working]  are forced to work to the last atom of [their] strength”, at the very moment they are no longer strong or useful the animals are “slaughtered with hideous cruelty”

connotation

"comrades" "enemies of the farm"

emotive language

 “Napoleon.. Dying!”

exclaimation

Napoleon giving a ‘dirty look’ to Boxer

foreshadows Napoleons betrayal to Boxer when he send him to a slaughterer

“were perpetually fighting among themselves and …rapidly starving to death”

foreshadows the executions, famine, and the animals who kept their opposite views to themselves

 “was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood”

imagery

As the reports came out about Napoleon “dying”, and a crackdown on the prohibition of alcohol on the farm, except when Napoleon made a full recovery from his hangover, he ____ changed the commandment to suit his new interest in brewing and distilling his own alcohol

irony

Orwell uses Mollie's voluntary departure from the farm for a better life more suited to her demands to _____, Snowball’s departure as he is chased out of the farm and the animals never hear from him again

juxtapose

Orwell uses ________ to depict the lives of the animals during the Rebellion. Through this style of writing, Orwell helps readers connect with the animals, as they feel like they are part of the story, watching the plot carried out before their eyes.

narration