AICE GENERAL PAPERS EXAM REVIEW

Old Major

Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin

Napoleon's Dogs

KGB/secret police

Mr. Jones

Czar Nicholas II

Moses the raven

religion/Russian orthodox

Benjamin

skeptical intellectuals

Squealer

propaganda/Pravda

Mollie

Russian aristocrats

Napoleon

Joseph Stalin

Boxer

working class

Snowball

Leon Trosky

Allusion

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Idiom

A figure of speech whose meaning is culturally defined and cannot be directly translated

Meiosis (understatement)

a figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.

Onomatopoeia

the use of words that imitate sounds

Simile

a comparison using "like" or "as"

asydenton

the omission of conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses

irony

the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning

rhetorical question

A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.

zeugma

the use of a verb that has two different meanings with objects that complement both meanings

pathos

appeal to emotion

hyperbole

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

imagery

language that appeals to the senses

metaphor

A comparison without using like or as

personification

the giving of human qualities to something nonhuman

antithesis

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

chiasmus

a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases

metonymy

substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it

synechdoche

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

ethos

appeal to credibility

logos

appeal to logical reasoning