Animal Farm Flashcards

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allegory

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a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

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anthropomorphism

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the showing or treating of animals, gods, and objects as if they are human in appearance, character, or behaviour.

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Fairy tale

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A story with fantasical elements

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dystopia

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an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian.

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Irony

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a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result

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Maxim

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a short, memorable statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.

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Moral

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A principle or belief concering right and wrong behaviour

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Objective

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based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings

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omniscient narrator

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third-person narrator who knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters.

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Propaganda

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ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader or a government

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Satire

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a technique use to expose and criticise foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule.

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12
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Naive

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Lack of experiance

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Cynical

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Disbelieving and supicious

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14
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tyrannical

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Brutal leader

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15
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Inffectual

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Hopeless

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16
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Totalitarian

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where the leader has complete control

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17
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Unify

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Bring together

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18
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Preside

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Lead over

19
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Narcissistic

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Someone who thinks much.
about themselves
a lot and admires themselves too much

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Confound

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Confuse

21
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Repress

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To contol what people want

22
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megalomaniac

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Power-hungry

23
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Manipulate

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Contol or influence

24
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Proaperity

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a state of wealth

25
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Unanimous

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in complete agreement

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Apathy

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lack of interest or concern

27
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Collusion

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secret agreement to deceive others

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Scapegoat

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a person blamed for someone else’s wrong

29
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Dictator

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A ruler who has total power over everything and everyone – typically by force.

30
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Communism

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A system of social organisation in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their needs/abilities.

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Comrade

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A word used to address a fellow member of an organisation – typically linked to the armed forces - or to address people in communist countries.

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Comrade

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A word used to address a fellow member of an organisation – typically linked to the armed forces - or to address people in communist countries.

33
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Dictator

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A ruler who has total power over everything and everyone – typically by force.

34
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Communism

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A system of social organisation in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their needs/abilities.

35
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This shows that the idea of all of them being equal would stand but some of them will be more power full than the others

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‘All animals are equal, but some animal are more equal than others’

36
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This quote shows that they had to shotern the moto to something simpler, something catchupy that the animals which arent so bright can understand it

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‘Four legs good, two legs bad

37
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Changing up the quote to make the enemy ways better than the other animals

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‘Four legs good, two legs better’

38
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Give hope to keep working harder for a future that dosent exist

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‘I must work harder

39
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Being equal exept there always be people on top

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. ‘All animals are equal, but some animal are more equal than others’

40
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Saying that the new leaders had just become like the old

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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

41
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These is stalin show trails showing how much power he has

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And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood’

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This is saying it is inevatable to be corrupt when you have unrivabled power

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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”

43
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The pig are becoming their predecoucers

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‘It was a pig walking on his hind legs… He carried a whip in his trotter’

44
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The laws were meant to be unchanged

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‘these Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever’