Animal Farm Assessment Review

Animal Farm Assessment Review

Match

Identify each animal by matching it with the correct characterization

• Napoleon

• Squealer

• Snowball

• Boxer

• Old Major

A tyrannical leader who uses fear tactic

A brilliant talker; Represents the propa

A leader in the revolution; More enthusi

Huge, strong horse; not very smart, but

Began the whole idea of the revolution;

• A tyrannical leader who uses fear tactic

• A brilliant talker; Represents the propa

• A leader in the revolution; More enthusi

• Huge, strong horse; not very smart, but

• Began the whole idea of the revolution;

Parody is a form of satire that imitates the language, style and appearance of a person or group of people. Parody is used for mocking or making fun of the person or group of people to point out the ridiculous behavior that needs to change, which is when it becomes used in satire. 

​Parody

Satire is a blend of ironic humor and wit, with implied criticism for the purpose of ridiculing perceived bad behavior such as vice or stupidity. The purpose of this type of humor is to provoke people to recognize this ridiculous or bad behavior in order to promote change.

​Satire

Satire... Parody

1. On one level, it is a simple story. 

2. On a deeper level, an allegory purposely uses characters, events, and sometimes the setting to represent qualities that are supposed to signal to the reader that the author is creating a story that teaches a lesson about politics, morality, social values, and religious values. 

An allegory is a story that has 2 meanings:

Allegory...

Multiple Choice

When a character, such as Napoleon, imitates a political figure, such as Joseph Stalin, in a way that is exaggerated to point out their behavior, this is an example of:

• satire

• parody

• fable

• allegory

Multiple Choice

How is Animal Farm an allegory?

• Animal Farm is an allegory because it uses fictional characters and events to symbolize the Russian Communist Revolution.

• Napoleon's purges, forced confessions of pigs, sheep, hens, etc.

• Revolutions may result in a change of political power but people's lives remain basically the same.

• Animal Farm is an allegorical satire through which Orwell indirectly attacks the Russian Communication under Stalin.

​Logos

Ethos appeals to the speaker's status or authority, making the audience more likely to trust them.

​Ethos

Rhetorical Appeals...

​Pathos

Pathos appeals to emotions, trying to make the audience feel angry or sympathetic, for example.

Logos appeals to the audience's reason, building up logical arguments.

Multiple Choice

In his speech, Old Major says the following: "I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired. I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living."

Which rhetorical device is being used?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Multiple Choice

Squealer was able to convince the animals that giving the apples and milk to the pigs was a benefit to all of them by asking, "Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back. Yes! Jones would come back!" Squealer uses a fear tactic as what rhetorical device?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Propaganda is the deliberate spreading of information or ideas to either help or harm a person, group or movement, institution or nation by promoting a cause or a point of view. 


There are many different propaganda techniques.

Propaganda...

Multiple Choice

When the pigs chat the following: "Friend of the fatherless! Fountain of happiness... Thou are the giver of all that they creature love... Comrade Napoleon!..."

What propaganda technique is being used?

• Bandwagon

• Testimonial

• Plain Folk

• Glittering Generalities

Multiple Choice

Old Major's speech: Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short... 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

What propaganda technique is being used?

• Scapegoating

• Loaded Words (provokes emotions; involves the use of transfer)

• Faulty Logic

• Glittering Generalities

Multiple Choice

What type of propaganda technique is the constant bad-mouthing of humans? "Worthless parasitical human beings," Old Major speech: "Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever."

• Cardstacking

• Scapegoating

• Name Calling

• Bandwagon

Multiple Choice

Boxer's maxims include, "I will work harder. Napoleon is always right."

What type of propaganda technique would this be?

• Plain Folk

• Slogan

• Glittering Generalities

• Bandwagon

• A theme is a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a story.

• One key characteristic of literary themes is their universality.

  • Themes are ideas that not only apply to the specific characters and events of a book or play but also express broader truths about human experience that readers can apply to their own lives.

Theme...

Multiple Choice

Which one is NOT a major theme in Animal Farm?

• Revolutions may result in a change of political power but people's lives remain basically the same.

• Power corrupts those who possess it.

• People's ignorance contributes to their political and social oppression.

• People within a society can all be treated equally.

Multiple Choice

Review this quote: "If she could have spoken her thoughts it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race" (Orwell 86). Animals are worse off with Napoleon than they were with Jones.

The evidence supports which of the following themes:

• Revolutions may result in a change of political power but people's lives remain basically the same.

• Power corrupts those who possess it.

• People's ignorance contributes to their political and social oppression.

• People within a society can all be treated equally.

Multiple Choice

Review this quote: Boxer and Clover "absorbed everything as they were told" (Orwell 18).

The evidence supports which of the following themes:

• Revolutions may result in a change of political power but people's lives remain basically the same.

• Power corrupts those who possess it.

• People's ignorance contributes to their political and social oppression.

• People within a society can all be treated equally.

​Situational

What is said is the opposite of the literal meaning

-Sarcasm

​Verbal

Irony...

​Dramatic

The audience understands more about a situation than some of the characters do

The outcome of a situation is contrary to or different from what is expected

Multiple Choice

Throughout the book, the animals talk about how the farm is better without Man in charge. However, the ending of the book is an example of situational irony.

How is the end of the book ironic?

• Boxer is sent away to be killed after working so hard he is useless.

• Mollie runs away to one of the neighboring farms.

• The pigs become the same as Man.

• The windmill is destroyed.