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What does allegory mean? |
A simple story often with a deeper meaning |
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What does a didactic tale mean |
A story with a moral teaching |
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What does anthropomorphism mean? |
When animals are given the characteristics of humans |
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What is a dictator? |
A political leader that rules with absolute power, no democracy |
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What is a tyrant? |
A cruel dictator who is unkind to their people |
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What is a democracy? |
A political system in which everyone had a right to vote |
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What is a totalitarian state? |
A country ruled by a dictator, no one has a say in what happens, rebels are killed or imprisoned |
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What is a tricolon? |
List of three |
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What is a communism? |
When everything is shared equally in a society |
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What is a hierarchy? |
A social system |
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What is a proletariat? |
The working class |
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What is a vice? |
A bad habit |
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What does patriotic mean? |
When love and acknowledgement is shown for one country |
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What does autonomy mean? |
The freedom to make your own decisions |
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What does it mean if your subservient? |
Your prepared to obey others without question |
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What is propaganda? |
Biased or misleading publicity |
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What is status quo? |
The way things are Bad status quo |
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What does subjugate mean? |
Keep under control |
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What does pejorative mean? |
Negative |
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What does bucolic mean? |
Typical green country side |
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What does aggrandise mean? |
Making someone seem important/grand |
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What does pathos mean? |
Writer making us feel sad Killing boxer |
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What does nonchalantly mean? |
Casually |
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Name the seven commandments |
1) whatever goes apon two legs is an enemy 2)whatever goes apon four legs, or has wings, is a friend 3)no animal shall wear clothes 4)no animal shall sleep in a bed 5)no animal shall drink alcohol 6)no animal shall kill any other animal 7)all animals are equal |
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What was the shortened version of the seven commandments recited by the sheep and helpful for the hens and ducks ? |
Four legs good, two legs bad |
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What was the first altar made of the seven commandments |
4)No animal shall sleep in a bed, WITH SHEETS |
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What was the second altar made to the seven commandments? |
6)no animal shall kill any other animal, WITHOUT CAUSE |
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What was the third altar to the seven commandments? |
5)no animal shall drink alcohol, TO EXCESS |
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What was the altered version of four legs good two legs bad? |
Four legs good two legs better Chapter 10 |
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What was the final commandments made when the original commandments were abolished? |
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others |
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What character does napoleon represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
Josef Stalin |
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Who was Joseph Stalin? |
A dictator |
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Who does old major represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin |
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Who does snowball represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
Leon Trotsky |
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Who does squealer represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
Propaganda |
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Who does mollie represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
The upper class |
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What does the farm house represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
The Kremlin (palace) |
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Who do the puppies represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
The KGB (Russian secret police) |
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Who is the owner of foxwood farm? |
Mr Pilkington |
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Who is the owner of pinchfield farm? |
Fredrick |
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Who does boxer represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
The proletariat (uneducated working class) |
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Who was Leon Trotsky? |
The Russian revolutionary leader, Stalin’s greatest rival |
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Who does napoleon use as a scapegoat? |
Snowball |
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Who did pilkington represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
The capitalist west |
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Who does Fredrick represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
Hitler and nazi Germany |
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Who does jones represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
Tsar Nicholas II |
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Who do the hens represent in terms of the Russian revolution? |
The peasants who were forced to get rid of their produce |
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What does the chronological structure of animal farm show? |
The gradual decline of animalism (napoleon taking control and slowly undermining each commandment) |
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What quotation shows how the pigs are lazy in terms of labour? |
“The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others” |
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“Napoleon stood up to reply. He said very quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that he advised nobody to vote for it” what does this quotation show? |
Hypocrisy, manipulation |
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What quotation shows how napoleon brainwashed the animals and turned them against snowball? |
“Snowball was nothing but a criminal” |
