1984 Vocabulary

Who does this image portray?

• Winston Smith

• O'Brien

• Big Brother

• Mr. Charrington

What does Syme Syme use instead of physical writing?

• Newspeak

• Speakwrite

• Doublethink

• Big Brother

What is Newspeak?

• The language of the future

• The fictional language in 1984

• A text-to-speech device in 1984

• A term in Orwellian language

What is doublethink?

• Not thinking

• Lying to Big Brother

• Ability to hold two contradicting beliefs at once

• Overthinking

Define infallible

• To be capable of making mistakes

• To be all powerful

• To be incapable of falling

• To be incapable of making mistakes

Define oligarchy

• A controlling government

• No longer in use or necessary

• A government wherein power lies with a small group of wealthy people

• A place far far away

What is a thoughtcrime?

• To think

• To think something that is against the government's beliefs

• To believe something that is against the government

• To rebel

What is unperson?

• To be a person in Oceania

• Antonym of person

• Not being alive or running away from Oceania

• Someone who is erased from existence typically after being convicted or executed

Define solipsism

• The concept of saying one thing but meaning the opposite

• The idea that you are your own person

• The belief that the only thing that can possibly be proved real is the self

• To be afraid of others

What is rectify?

• To alter historical records to match propaganda

• To correct a mistake

• To delete something from existence

• To declare something to a group of people